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Word: eee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yorkshire was not impressed with the fame gained by its native sons in the outside world. Most Yorkshiremen stared stonily at the works, pronounced them "poozling" and just plain "dommed silly." Said one housewife: "Eee-ee. Did you ever? I wouldn't even have that in our Nellie's attic." Armitage was not surprised. Said he: "The social atmosphere is so puritan and esthetically barren that any artist who fights his way to any kind of recognition there is bound to do all right in the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yorkshire Cradle | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Last week, 40 years after his first swing on a back-lot liana, Tarzan of the Apes ooo-eee-ooed the famed yodel, dropped from the treetops into his 32nd movie. Since the other 31 were all financial successes-a combined total gross of more than $500 million and a total audience of 2 billion people-the new Tarzan's Fight for Life showed the sort of promise most appreciated by Cinemogul Sy Weintraub, new head of Sol Lesser Productions, owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bongo Bongo Boffo | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...Oooh-eee-oooh-aah-aah Ting-tang Walla-walla bing-bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple, Man, Purple | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...single line when active, a double line when passive. Thus i is to see, II to be seen. A dot before the verb line indicates the past tense, a dot behind the line the future. Some other common Pictos: D-behind, A man, O woman, Hill red, |EEE| blue, LyJ coat, X an(^> I + to have, I ^^ to speak or to say, 4-about, i A to go or to walk, # good, #better, - best, beautiful. A simple Picto sentence: I 'A. 9 Q-X I <- - 6 (She walks under the trees and speaks to a man). When it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: International Language | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...EEE. Merit, on Broadway, came in most sizes and shapes. In My Fair Lady, music had charms to please the most civilized breast; gilding Pygmalion, My Fair Lady made a dazzling Mayfair lady of Shaw's guttersnipe. The season's comedies had everything from the faint fine laughter of the eyes to sheer guffawing rock and roll. There was rewarding drama as well as melodrama, and in The Diary of Anne Frank, which won seven awards (including the Pulitzer and Critics' Circle), sound sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bumper Crop | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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