Word: yells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City. With a deafening imitation of indignant innocence, Boss Hague let out a yell (in full-page advertisements, paid for by Jersey City) that could be heard for miles. Yelled Hague: "This will cost Jersey City $57,000,000 in twenty years...
Axis capitals loosed a stereotyped yell about U.S. aggression in the Far East, and let it go at that. Japan made a routine gesture of freezing U.S. and British assets, but Finance Minister Masatsune Ogura explained carefully that Japan would use economic measures against the democracies only in retaliation, would, pending further developments, continue to pay interest on Japanese dollar bonds. He added that Japan is blessed with an abundance of raw materials...
...Leon Henderson were to answer these Latin floors with a U.S. ceiling, Brazilians would yell. It would have a bad effect on the milreis-likewise on the good-neighborly State Department. But if shipping space gets scarcer, the price of coffee may get too high even for State. In that case some sort of import control would be necessary...
...thousand-throated freshman yell of "Take them off," Sally Rand, at a Harvard smoker, thoughtlessly retorted, "I will if you will," danced in a blizzard of cast-off gents' furnishings...
Originally suggested by the cheerleaders in the belief that students might yell louder if placed with their friends, the innovation amounts to letting undergraduates sit virtually wherever they please. For if a man living in one House prefers to join his friends in another, a switch is perfectly agreeable...