Word: goo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tall, angular Brayton C. Case has stuck to his post at the repeatedly bombed agricultural school at Pyinmana near Toun-goo, despite the departure of all civil authority. He is marshaling food supplies for the Chinese armies, sending them truckload after truckload of cabbages, pigs, everything else he can lay his hands on. "If I ran off," he said, "there would be no one around to round up food for these Chinese...
...north, the remnants of an enemy expeditionary force of 100,000 slogged their way through the clinging goo of winter-flooded rice paddy fields as fast as heavy legs could take them. But they had a long way to go before they could reach the protection of their own artillery stalled along the Milo river...
...Goo-goo-eyed Charles Boyer, although his performance could not be called expansive, plays his accustomed role with some comedy and without undue strain. Earnest Margaret Sullavan manages to seem nubile as well as noble. On the whole, Appointment, like Bill Nye's appraisal of Wagner's music, is "better than it sounds...
...made movies and pots of money. Like most gypsies, she lets the money slip, but she has invested a lot in diamonds and furs. Easygoing, she wears a dirty bathrobe about the house, with a silver fox cape to top it off. Her English thus far is " 'ello," "goo' night," "hokay," t'ank you." She has no aspirations towards formal Spanish dancing, says (in Spanish): "If I feel like jumping, I jump. If I feel like sitting, I sit." All Carmen Amaya really wants is "to be known as the greatest Spanish gypsy dancer in the world...
...years on the air, she has received over a million letters. Folksiest broadcast she ever made involved her redheaded nephew on the occasion of his first birthday. The nephew proved taciturn and Miss McBride, to convince her listeners that he was really there, kept murmuring, "Say 'Goo,' baby, say 'Goo.' " After listening to Miss McBride for almost 45 minutes, the baby finally gave in. "Goo," he said...