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...crowd was not happy with the situation. They began to shout and ram the gates, demanding entrance. Teenaged boys scratched their initials and some dirty words into the new paint on the closed gates. This upset a woman in a powder blue pantsuit so that she began to yell, "Stop defacing the beautiful new stadium! Stop it; do you hear!" Pat Cunningham scurried into the V.I.P. entrance to the ballpark. The woman in the pantsuit began to demand that her husband do something about the vandals, whose activity grew more impassioned. Her husband shrugged his shoulders, and as his jacket...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Horizontal Pinstripes | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...disc jockey who answered Drickamer's victory call was apparently dissatisfied with her reaction to victory, so he asked her to pretend he had just picked up the phone and then scream a lot, while he taped the ersatz yell...

Author: By Warren W. Ludwig, | Title: Junior Wins WCOZ Contest Thanks to Help From Friends | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

...soldier might sound like. When I got into it, I felt like I was on top of the world, all these people quiet and transfixed, I even forgot about some friends of mine who said they might make obscene gesticulations (masturbating an elephant, if you can believe that) or yell "Don't shoot," when it comes to be the time in the speech when the guy lies down on the road and lets the elephant have it between the eyes. With 300 people on the edges of their seats, wearing your tuxedo and standing above them, you sort of forget...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Big Game | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

...crack of noon a communal yell commenced the kaleidoscope start. Bromwich was far enough back in the pack that he didn't reach the starting line until almost 90 seconds into the race. "It was very hot at the start, but I had very few problems and felt good for the first ten miles. And could you believe those women at Wellesley, [approximately the halfway point] they were so enthusiastic, they gave everyone a lift...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harriers Hurdle Hills, Heat in Boston Marathon | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

...working man with sleeves rolled up--a takeoff on the cover of an early Frank Sinatra album? Coal black hair? The picture is all still, the energy curiously becalmed. A woman reed thin, when quiet just a sparkler in storage, but when she begins to sing or yell it's Bastille Day and all the pecan shops in Georgia have contributed M-80 cherry bombs to the chaos. The night sky fills with blue and pink pinwheels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

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