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Word: koko (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed Japan glared in hatred, waiting for the day when one would push the other from the steppes of central Asia and win the key region for dominating northern China. Meanwhile the Japanese installed Prince Teh in an old, tile-roofed, Mongol palace at Inner Mongolia's metropolis, Koko Hoto (pop. 120,000)-the "Blue City," so called because from a distance a bluish haze veils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INNER MONGOLIA: Prince Humpty-Dumpty | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...hallowed walls of F-31 are resounding with the refrain of Dave Blumberg's new song, "I Was Raised to the Tune of the Telegraph Key" or "Shoot the Loco' to me Koko." This little ditty should prove popular with all who are interested in Transportation (alias the glorification of the R.R.'s). Therefore, a conservative estimate places the net circulation of the new ballad at approximately...

Author: By W. M. Cousine and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/18/1944 | See Source »

...reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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