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Word: phew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Candidate George E. Brown). The truth was that the cheers were more for a party decision than for ruddy, white-thatched Nye Bevan himself. Said a Mine Union leader: "We thought he'd be better cornered in office than left wild outside." Sighed a delegate: "Phew, unity at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Room at the Fireside | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...Another fella deserves credit and where would I be without him? Phew! He can give me a job in the outfield and he can catch, too [Elston Howard, first Negro ever to play with the Yankees]. Good kid, too, if they leave him alone and stop fighting the Civil War all over and they almost ruined him. He's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...runs in his first 32 hits [of his three first basemen. Casey is now talking about Ed Robinson]. So they say he won't be an outfielder [now, Joe Collins], but I'm not afraid to stick him in the outfield in the '53 series, and phew! What do they say in Brooklyn about me using a first baseman in the outfield? But he does me a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team. (As McPheron plunged into the prop blast, listeners heard him count, "1,000 . . . 2,000 . . . 3,000" then, as the chute cracked open: "Phew! It takes the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Under the Gun | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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