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Word: cha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every hand, he heard radios blaring the hastily pressed record Ingemar O Ingemar, learned that even an Ingemar Cha-Cha (lyrics by Actress Signe Hasso) would soon be released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ingo's Return | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...dozen record companies providing recorded calls. There are an estimated 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs in the U.S., as dedicated to learning the intricacies of the ladies' chain or the left-hand star as any Arthur Murray graduate student is to the mastery of the cha cha cha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Hip Squares | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...want this woman or don't cha...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...There was sake, of course," reported the disgruntled American tourist in Tokyo last week, "but the girls seemed most interested in plying us with highballs. 'Let's dance!' one of them said, stubbing out her cigarette, and we all cha-chaed to a hi-fi phonograph. When we finished eating, another girl with a horse's laugh, said, 'Let's play baseball.' So we all got up and pretended to be hitting, catching and running: the object of the game was to bump rumps. Later the girls offered to dance for us. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Vanishing Geisha | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Rome the bongo drums throbbed unnecessarily. Tuxedos dropped to the floor in homage. Blue-blooded Borgheses and warm-blooded entertainers stamped their feet, but hardly to get circulation going. Cinemelon Anita Ekberg had just slumped with exhaustion after dropping a shoulder strap in a loamy cha-cha-cha, and now a Turkish bellydancer was grinding away at Anita's challenge: "Let's see you do better." She did. With fundamental gesture-and no clothing save a pair of black lace panties-Haisch Nanah, 24, turned U.S. Socialite Peter Howard's birthday party for an Italian countess into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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