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Word: chees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different slang words were used. Examples: babe, bracelets, chee, crack pot, darn, dawgoned, diggity, flatfoot, framed, gal, gents, gorsh, heck, haywire, holy-mackerel, hyuh, janes, migosh, nope, nuts, O.K., phooie, scram, shux, tipoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic-Strip Language | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...answer: There is a Chinese way and an American way. In American, it is chee-ang. In Mandarin, now the official dialect of China, it is approximately John with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chee-ang v. Johng | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...damned Japanese, come on over here." Invariably a frustrated, fuzzy -tongued voice answers: " -you, Fuwren-chee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tales from Bataan | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Chee Lai (Paul Robeson, Liu Liang-Mo and chorus; Keynote). Songs of Free China, in English and Chinese, including Song of the Guerrillas (Go to the rear of the enemy and kick them in the pants}. Although not tuneful to Western ears, the songs are interesting and authentic examples of China's new mass music. China Aid Council (member of United China Relief) gets part of the proceeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: December Records | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

TIME, March 24: the article on Japan, "Pain in the Nekku," errs in saying Chee is Japanese for tea. It is Cha. Always preceded by the honorific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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