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...memory -- a stutterer and an abused girl. The Validated Nightmare: "At the last instant, as the ax slowed to its apogee and balanced there, Richie understood that this wasn't a dream at all . . ." The Disgusting Colloquialism: "She drew in a great, hitching breath and hocked a remarkably large looey onto the top of his head." The Brand-Name Maneuver: "Here sits a man with Bass Weejuns on his feet and Calvin Klein underwear to cover his ass." The Comic-Strip Effect: "Whack-whack-whack-whack -- And suddenly it was in his hands, a great living thing that pumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

FEBRUARY--Two hundred Chem 20 students appear at the final wearing Looey Feiser sweatshirts, hoping that the gesture will bring them good luck. It doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/4/1965 | See Source »

Credited with some 70 hours of flight time, slim Rosina Quarles, blue-yondering wife of the Deputy Secretary of Defense and grandma of seven, got her pilot's wings and second-looey bars in the Civil Air Patrol. Expecting her checkout as a CAP search pilot, Aviatrix Quarles owned up to one frustration: "I'd like to fly jets, but my husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...American as his non-proletarian father was proCommunist. He seized every opportunity to tune in secretly to broadcasts of the Voice of America and the BBC, pored over contraband U.S.-history books, and whirled in delight to the downbeat of U.S. jazz and "boogy-voogy" crying '"Ooo, San Looey" as he gyrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Boogy-Voogist | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Generals "Lem" Shepherd and "Red Mike" Edson, Colonel "Chesty" Puller), Kentucky-born Jim Crowe started in the ranks. He was an enlisted man up to 1934, when he became a Marine gunner (warrant officer). After Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned a captain ("I was never a lousy second looey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: Iron Man | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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