She's funny and charming and can whoop it up like the best of them.
Adults usually don't have the "whoop" cough, so they may not think they have pertussis.
There was a whoop and the sound of clapping, and William turned to see Natalie applauding them.
An intense discomfort settled on the room and drew a kind of pity-whoop from near the salad bar.
From Walsh's triumphal whoop, you might have thought he had just scored a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
Roosten brightened and sent a relieved half wave in the direction of the whoop and someone else pity-whooped him.
Sean drank as much as anyone in that bar, which is saying something, and he could whoop and holler with the best of them.
The indelible memory of that wonderful whoop is one of the reasons why I keep on going to live performances night after night.
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Or curl up with a hot water bottle as the temperature drops and listen to the whoop calls of hyena as you drift off to sleep.
After 30 minutes, when the car is finally parked, the watching students whoop with delight and give the poor woman a round of applause.
Both the food and the fashion whoop it up at Diwali, the annual festival of lights, which takes place from 6 - 7 November, 2010 ( www.gerrardindiafestivals.com).
The main symptoms are severe coughing fits which, in babies and children, are accompanied by the characteristic "whoop" sound as the child gasps for breath after coughing.
From my cosy cocoon, I heard the call and response of birds zipping electrically through the night air, the staccato rhythm of galloping hooves, the whoop of hyenas stalking fresh meat.
Hussey reached his ninth Test hundred soon after lunch in a slightly fortunate manner, inside-edging Sharma past his stumps for four, but let out a whoop of delight nevertheless.
Parents and doctors can often miss the initial symptoms of pertussis in the youngest patients because they often do not have the characteristic cough with a "whoop" says Patti.
I'd seen it happen a half-dozen times without incident in the past, but that night the audience let out a huge whoop of delight at the sheer cheekiness of Balanchine's choreography.
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The signature exclamations of juniors and seniors include a "whoop" that is "probably a sound that no one should ever make, especially men, " says Greg Fox, a 28-year-old graduate of rival University of Texas.
Cases of the bacterial disease pertussis, nicknamed for the "whoop" sufferers sometimes make as they gasp for breath after a long coughing spell, have risen from 1, 010 in 1976 to over 25, 000 today, according to the CDC.
That's not the sirens' fault -- a mind-numbingly loud "whoop whoop" really doesn't have the bandwidth to reveal that kind of information to the human ear -- but now that SMS-capable phones are ubiquitous, it's time to smarten things up just a tad.
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