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Word: oo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land of Oo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Land of Oo-bla-dee | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Other winners of the week: ¶ At Chicago's Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of the year ($267,525). ¶ At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox Left-Hander Mel Parnell hurled his team to a victory over the White Sox, 11-4, became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And Still Champions | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Center Theater's mammoth, popular ice carnivals. In terms of titles, it would seem that the management is really getting desperate. But not in terms of customers: almost eight million people have sat in on the skating-and no one has yet considered producing a Toodle-oo, Mr. Ice. Indeed, though all the shows have a strong family resemblance, this season's has more bounce than last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Ice Show in Manhattan | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Band Leader Lionel Hampton announced the names of the selections he would play at a Carnegie Hall concert: Be-Bop, Re-Bop, Oo-Bop, Zoo-Bop, Ee-Oo-Bop and The Crystal Suite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Pronounced moo-oo-moo-oo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Something Old, Something New | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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