Word: foo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to an investigator for the Sacramento Union named Ching Foo, she ended up starving in a New York tenement. All she had left, before her death, was Ludwig's $20,000 diamond necklace, and she was bilked of that. The book, unfortunately, is written by Author Holdredge in an infatuated period prose. It is all very sad and wonderful in its own ludicrous...
...police and the National Parks maintenance men. Hundreds more attend egg rollings at churches, schools and private homes. But the biggest numbers always converge on the White House. Last week, as usual, the grounds of the Executive Mansion looked like a mob scene on a field of egg foo yung as 17,000 Washingtonians congregated for the big event. As usual, most of those on hand had no idea what an egg roll was supposed to be. Smacks for Easter. Egg rolling is a mysterious, long-coddled folk custom that is neither a game nor a rite, not colorful...
Cheesecake. Among the worst offenders, said the committee, are nudist magazines supposedly "published in the interest of sunshine and health," and straight cheesecake magazines. Sample cheesecake titles: Candid Whirl, Glamorous Models, Wink, Whisper, Keyhole, Titter, Foo, Nifty, Pepper, Zip, Wham, Paris Life...
...Foo-Fighters. Another saucerlike object is the "foo-fighter": a bright spot of light which seemed to chase night-flying airplanes during World War II. Menzel believes that foo-fighters are really light (from the moon, from a plane's exhaust or from some other source) that is turned into the pilot's eye by strong eddies of air near a damaged wing. The moon disks that he saw himself were probably a sort of foo-nghter...
Hank McCusker scored twice as Leverett squeaked past Dunster, 3 to 2. Art French spelled the difference for the victors when he drove a 40-foo shot by Funster goalie Henry Foldman...