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Word: kokomo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edgar Landon Apperson, 89, auto industry pioneer, who built one of the world's first cars; in Phoenix, Ariz. In 1893 Apperson put together his first car in a little shop in Kokomo, Ind., later produced annually 1,500 cars (called Jackrabbits), prophesied in 1943: "When the American people are willing to sacrifice showing off, they'll get a lighter car built of light materials that will be cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...helped by an unusually strong Marion County Democratic ticket. In the Ninth (Aurora) District, lone-wolf Republican Earl Wilson, 52, running as usual without help from the state G.O.P. organization, needs a good rural turnout to hold his seat against Bartholomew County Sheriff Earl Hogan, 38-In the Fifth (Kokomo) District, archconservative, teetotaling Republican John Beamer, 61, is fighting for his life against vigorous, teetotaling Huntington County Lawyer J. Edward Roush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDWEST: Congressional Fights Tax the G.O.P. | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

IRENE LEMIEUX Kokomo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...from squiring Stateside VIPs around the island (their code word for the chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee is "God"). But with a wobbly assist now and then, Marblehead carries on. To give the home front "the little picture," he promotes what he calls a "Joe Blow of Kokomo" campaign to locate the typical young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Flannel War | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...opinion as a native of Kokomo (rhymes with ho-ho-ho) is that a rhyming dictionary ain't a good thing to tour Indiana with. In that state, where Peru rhymes with Pee-roo, Brazil rhymes not so much with Hazel as Bray-zill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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