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Word: goos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that was in the future. For the moment the battle was still joined on the Hungarian plain, its fields of yellow pumpkins punctuated by small lakes and farm buildings. Persistent rain had made the kind of mud that even stumped bullocks. Infantrymen were all but swimming in the thick goo and tanks were helplessly stalled. Nevertheless the Russians slogged on past the Tisa, past the abandoned German tanks and trucks littering the plains, and on toward the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (SOUTH): New Vistas | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...much third-act gunfire and goo not only mar an otherwise enjoyable play; they also keep it from meaning anything. Jacobowsky should have grasped how gaiety in the face of annihilation can create, as it seldom did here, its own kind of pathos and heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...find their building; but kind hearted Adams House men have been of infinite help. Still, no one as yet has tipped the color blind Lampoon editors off about the dastardly deed and they have been only making matters worse by getting their hands and feet in the creamy goo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poon Prepares for Winter; Dons Warm Coat of Paint | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

...natural for Cagney, and he romps and fights to his, and our, heart's content. Bit when matters are turned over to the tender mercies of Grace George, the afere-mentioned lovable old lady, her sweetness soon turns into a sticky goo which moved the spirit to feel like moving toward the nearest exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/30/1943 | See Source »

...sang a song called Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes . . . the audience kept applauding, to see how much further [my eyes] could pop out without something tragic happening . . . the encouragement . . . prompted me to enter show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years Off the Bowery | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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