Word: yelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...universally hated in Philadelphia, most of the black neighbors who lived near MOVE did not resent the group as much as the middle-class whites living on the other side of the city. Right after the shooting, 300 infuriated black neighbors gathered at the scene of the battle to yell at police, throw rocks and inveigh against the blatant racism of the police. The protestors said the violence could easily have been avoided had the police left MOVE in peace...
Hockey, men's heavyweight crew, basketball and baseball all rate as major sports, but none comes close to football. I mean, where else do you get the chance to sit in the sun all afternoon, yell obscenities about Dartmouth, get totally sloshed, and be considered normal...
...each show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...
...plenty of factory workers aspire to jobs that involve ties. In William Inge's Picnic, Hal Carter speaks wistfully of a job "in a nice office where I can wear a tie and have a sweet little secretary." When dressing up, blue collar workers often like a loud yell of garish color, while upper middle class men tend toward more discretion...
Hurley advanced on the honor guard of disheveled soldiers, stood for a moment, and then let out a loud screech-"Yahoo!" -giving the Choctaw yell of his native Oklahoma. We gaped; but this was President Roosevelt's choice. That evening, since the Communists had already prepared a banquet in honor of the November 7 anniversary of the great Russian Revolution, we were all invited. At that banquet, when Hurley was called on to speak, he rose, paused, and then yelled again at the top of his lungs, "Yahoo...