Word: yelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tuck 1954 congressional campaign, Wilson remarked in Detroit, referring to laid-off auto workers: "I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five-sided doghouse," upset the military convention of equating rank with intelligence by remarking...
...success-and in its place will arise station WEEP. There will be some program changes, occasionally some subdued music, and commercials beamed to a general audience. But for the most part, WILY fans will not be disappointed in WEEP. Announcers will still bray crazy commercials; odd-voiced groups will yell the lyrics to Chicken Baby Chicken, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and assorted other tunes "to endure traffic jams...
...roommate: "Jim had read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and he decided Christianity was a lot of hooey. He thought he should enlighten Father Sill, and went over to see him in his study. I remember I was downstairs, and suddenly I heard Father Sill-we called him the Holy Terror-yell, 'Get out of my study, you dirty, stinking little coward!' Jim left, protesting all the while, 'But sir, this is most unfair...
...have to fight my way through to the car. They're just waiting for you to do something. When I'm driving, I have to take it easy, hang back. If I'd cut somebody off, or anything like that, I could hear them yell, 'There's Godfrey, drunk again.' " <¶Ed Sullivan, tabbed by the late Fred Allen to "last as long as other people have talent," celebrated the ninth anniversary of his Sunday-evening variety show. When it seemed that the occasion would be blighted by the decision of his cosponsor, Lincoln...
...Announced, in a statement which brought a yell -of indignation from Red China, that the U.S. was sending an Air Force unit equipped with Matador missiles to Formosa to beef up the Nationalist Chinese defenses (see FOREIGN NEWS...