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Word: choo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mack Gordon (real name: Morris Gittler), 54, jumbo (over 300 Ibs.) Hollywood lyricist (Chattanooga Choo Choo, Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?), longtime partner of the late Composer Harry Revel (TIME, Nov. 17); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Connell as a card shark. When the choo-choo gets bullyragged by a few robbers at a wood stop, all three have inadvertently been left behind. But old home week is only just beginning. The "deserted" cabin in which the abandoned trio hopes to spend the night turns out to be chock-full of Cooper's childhood chums, now hiding out in well-whiskied obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Sputnik Choo-Choo. A space-age toy electric train with an airborne satellite was introduced by Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...boogie woogie, choo-choo...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Latter Day Poetry | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

...Choo-choo ch-boogie...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Latter Day Poetry | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

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