Word: yell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collusion or Costs? When major oil companies raised the price of crude oil 25? a bbl. last month, and retail price increases for gasoline and home-heating oils followed. New Jersey's Republican Charles A. Wolverton, chairman of the House Committee oh Interstate & Foreign Commerce, let out a yell...
...week was no place for cold-blooded Yankees. The west court of the gallery rang with the words and music of such songs as The Bonnie Blue Flag, The Conquered Banner, the sentimental love song Lorena, and for a finale, Dixie, with a 40-voice chorus giving the rebel yell...
...windup, there was a reading of General Lee's farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, and for the finish, a roof-raising Dixie with a 16-bar rebel yell. When it was over, there was hardly a dry eye in the house...
Getting the yell right was a special problem. Bales, unsure of style and pitch, hopped down to Richmond for a talk with a man who could be expected to know: the late historian Douglas Southall Freeman. Freeman gladly explained that the trick of the yell is the "cumulative effect," voice after voice, piercing the eardrums. Then Freeman threw back his head and blasted out with an earsplitting "Ooooo-eeeeeeeee!"* Says Bales with awe: "Once having heard it, you never forget...
...variation from the yell set down by one on-the-spot expert, Harvie Dew of the 9th Virginia Cavalry, who described it: "Woh-who-ey! who-ey! who-ey! Woh-who-ey! who-ey! etc. . . . Sound the first syllable . . . short and low, and the second . . . with a very hish and prolonged note deflecting upon the third syllable...