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  • The holiday spirits should be restrained in the face of what the French coined "savage capitalism" but our American pluck for risk, sheer color drunk on the red, white and blue, deafening sis-boom-bah dances around the war memorials all makes such a bore out of us, as a sovereign people.

     Death Of The Dollar Michael Caddell 2007

  • Gen actually put more time in at American schools than Harry, and at Berkeley, he had picked up a little American sis-boom-bah, which fitted him for the navy general staff.

    December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

  • Only in Carroll's zany universe, where the rah-rah of college meets the violent sis-boom-bah of the N.F.L., could losing become winning.

    NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM C. RHODEN 2011

  • Only in Carroll's zany universe, where the rah-rah of college meets the violent sis-boom-bah of the N.F.L., could losing become winning.

    NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM C. RHODEN 2011

  • Its semisweet flavor is much like that of "Lysistrata Jones," the musical opening on Broadway next month that is also set among the sis-boom-bah crowd, albeit in college.

    NYT > Home Page By CHARLES ISHERWOOD 2011

  • That won't stop sis-boom-bah supplicants from auditioning Thursday, though.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Rosie DiManno 2010

  • An escape for a university president into the world of sis-boom-bah.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2010

  • If any devotees have followed a college team longer than Alae Risse Leitch, let them stand up and be heard with a "rah-rah, sis-boom-bah."

    ajc.com - News 2009

  • Turn off the nightly Larry Kudlow sis-boom-bah routine and utilize your own ability to see through the lunacy.

    Safehaven 2008

  • Nonetheless, the main-stream-media overwhelmingly does objectivity no favors with their sis-boom-bah approach to the Obama campaign.

    Latest Articles 2008

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