Word: yelps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life, she coldly countered by charging in print, naming all names, that the country's No. 1 preacher was a bigger libertine than she and a hypocrite...
...Thinking, perhaps, that he wasn't fully understood, he drew a little analogy: "Personally, I like bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs," he said. "The bird dogs like to get out and hunt for their food, but the kennel dogs just sit on their haunches and yelp...
...Chicago, the U.S. attorney let out a yelp that the Her aid-American had been harboring a fugitive, talked about sending someone to jail. But in Washington, Attorney General McGranery was so glad to get Knetzer back in custody again that he shut him up. Said McGranery: "I am thankful [for the newspaper's] great enterprise...
While State's lawyers stewed, one indignant yelp arose from an area where the shoe might pinch. In wrathful comment on a New York Times story which raised the question of Argentina's "totalitarian" President Perón, Buenos Aires' die-hard Peronista daily La Epoca bellowed: "Such newspapers should not have the right to print, even on toilet paper, such libelous information [against] . . . a nation which is leading the world in the art of liberating people from Communist infection...
...Senate subcommittee's buckshot blast at high coffee prices (TIME, June 19), Latin America reacted with its loudest collective yelp in years. By accusing the latinos of rigging the coffee market and by bluntly suggesting some undiplomatic ways to force prices down aga (e.g., "scrutinizing" loan to coffee countries, encouraging production in other countries, policing the coffee trade, etc.), Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette and his colleagues had managed to wound the good neighbors' sensitive pride and threaten their pocketbooks as well...