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Word: oops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, with a hearty "ally-oop" the ambulance crew tore the sitter from her sitting place and trundled her and the doctor to the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stuck by the Tale | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Sculptor David McFall's statue of Winston Churchill [Dec. 15] is an impressive synthesis of the comic strip character, Alley Oop, and Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Died. J. P. McEvoy, 63, writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...Variety Artists slapped the name of Saudi Arabia's non-union King Saud (TIME, Jan. 28) on its "unfair list."* Saud's misdeed consisted of his commanding an Egyptian acrobatic troupe, now playing in his desert kingdom, to stay for some more performances, thus preventing the alley-oop specialists from keeping an imminent engagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...seventh place. Still she jumped−in addition to her old jobs as full-time housewife and part-time secretary. Last year she studied ballet on the theory that it would help. ("It was lots of fun. They wanted us to sing la-la-la-oop as we jumped.") A fortnight ago Dotty placed first in the Women's Amateur Athletic championships, and won a distinction no other athlete ever achieved: for the fourth time in 20 years she earned a spot on an Olympic team. "I'm always amazed at my jumping," says she. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: High-Jumping Housewife | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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