Word: foo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told a strange story of balls of fire which for more than a month have been following their planes at night over Germany.* No one seemed to know what, if anything, the fireballs were supposed to accomplish. Pilots, guessing that it was a new psychological weapon, named it the "foo-fighter...
Agreement on these matters by the three Western Allies bore chiefly on the war and the peace in Europe. But the basic agreement-on international association and the disposal of defeated enemies-also had the signature of China's Moscow Ambassador, Foo Ping-sheung. The texts carefully dissociated China from the war in Europe, Russia from the war with Japan. But the significant fact remained that the U.S.S.R. and China had signed a joint, wartime document...
Foolery. In Kansas City, Autoist John B. Rullo, who guessed that he had been practically joked, promised to correct his license plates after police stopped him. His rear license plate announced: "Foo-Goo." Contradicted the front one: "Goo-Foo...
...were possible. Democracy was not then counted a good security in Washington; but tung oil-essential in high-grade paints and varnishes-would do. So Chen founded Universal Trading Corp. in Manhattan to manage tung-oil sales, earmarking one-half the proceeds to pay the debt. He then organized Foo Shing Trading Corp. in China to gather and ship the oil, went home to direct...
...Magician Ching Ling Foo had a trick, never duplicated, in which with two flicks of his robe he produced: 1) a container, garbage-can size, filled with milk; 2) a metal tub containing a dozen live ducks...