ballyhoo

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For all the ballyhoo about having the most skiable acreage in the U.S.,

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

Of course, one doesn’t expect PR departments to ballyhoo bad news.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2022

“That was one of the places that my father used to stand outside in his outfit to ballyhoo all these movies,” she recalled.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2022

No. 3 Georgia, a bout that stoked ballyhoo, thudded to a dud suspense-wise Friday night.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022

Motion pictures ran day and night, their ballyhoo added to the outcries of the other barkers.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.