Word: yell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's yell-coaxers committed a serious sin against the First Commandment of pious and right-living cheer leaders. The boys simply weren't together. Counterpoint is fine in a Beethoven concerto, and uneven entrance and exit of voices the distinguishing characteristic of a Bach fugue. But the well-ordered cheer is strict harmony; and the cheering section will never be harmonious until the leaders all move the same way at the same time. Individualism has no place in cheer-leading--it has to be done as Hitler would have...
...strong this year--he was vagly afraid--. Ah, but the Crimson was stronger. Eleven men,--and more. Eleven men, and Vag. Unbeatable! He recalled with pride on thrilling fall afternoon: a crimson-clad figure with the ball, a purple and white jersey almost on him; then a long, clear yell rising out of the confusion of sound, spurring him on past the purple and white to the goal line. Vag had given that yell. He would give many more today...
...President Lazaro Cardenas went to the village of Dolores Hidalgo in Guanajuato State, stood before a microphone and roared the historic Grito de Dolores (Shout of Independence)-Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, viva la Independencia-which is Mexico's equivalent of the Confederacy's Rebel Yell. Then he made a speech. "Some people are trying to cause a rebellion in Mexico and entice the Mexican people away from the ways of peace," said the President. "An examination of the international situation will cause them to reconsider their position...
...victory in the first heat), he got in front fast and stayed there-Driver Egan looking as unruffled as though he were out for a morning brush. But when they reached the wire (in 2:03), 60-year-old Fred Egan let out a moppet's yell. After trying twelve times, he had won his first Hambletonian...
...city admen. When an exasperated Pittsburgh Plate Glass executive asked him what he would do first if he got the account, Maxon replied: "First thing I'd do would be to thank you profusely. Then I'd rush outside, throw my hat in the air and yell. Beyond that I haven't any idea...