Word: yells
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Hockey fans, like the game they yell at, are not polite. All season in Toronto, they had grumbled about mild-mannered Harry Watson. He seemed backward about parting the enemy's hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
...yell at you, just kicks you in the shins and makes you get back in line." Not all Harlem teachers were so direct: many were hardworking, kindly people who tried to do their best. But the percentage of mean and ignorant teachers was high...
...this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita gave us bad oil for the well pump, and the oil dripped into the well and gave us all diarrhea. Then we ran out of water. Nakakita told us we would have to yell as if we were sluicing ourselves with water so the visitors would think we were going through the rites. For two days we went into the yard fully dressed and went through the motions. Finally the oldtimers demanded that we give them a New Year's present of money...
...Army & Navy were confident they would be asked back-but not until after the national elections next June. Meantime, not even Panama's hottest hothead could find the breath to yell "Yanqui imperialism...
...whoop-de-do that marked the spirited festivals of the past. The razzle-dazzle that teased through the years with Sally Rand, Beatrice Kay and Jinx Falkenberg, was conceived in an all-or-nothing spirit that merited E pennants for entertainment. Eagerly anticipating upperclass status with a yell and a holler, all Freshmen banded together to throw their shackles into the Charles and emerge with the Biggest Show Ever. They balked only at the impossible, and-dreamed of painting their class numerals on the moon...