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Word: oo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oratorical battle, Labor hecklers twice howled down Tory Macmillan's attempts at street-corner speeches in Scotland and Yorkshire. And at Swansea, as Macmillan walked wearily toward a railroad station entrance after a seven-speech day, a woman bystander suddenly assailed him with a loud "Boo-oo-oo." Rounding on his tormentor, the Prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Dubious Battle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...call for West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess or to break oo:. After nine tedious weeks, Geneva was ending not with a bang, not with a whimper, but merely in a blur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The Breakoff | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...consonants in the Hawaiian alphabet are h, k, 1, m, n, p, w. They are pronounced as they are in English. The vowels are pronounced a as in ah, e as in long a, i as in long e, o as in oh, and u as in oo. Aloha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honi Soit Qui Malibu | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...some reviews. 'Oo are you trying to impress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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