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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patches and palm-roofed villages of free New Guinea the word came: him good fella white fella man had called for a big sing-sing to celebrate the passing of him bad fella Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: He Come Never No More | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...immemorial roast-pork feast there was not enough to go around: him hungry Japan man had combed the jungle clean of wild pigs. But him white fella man more than made up the lack with bully beef and flour. Never in fuzzy-wuzzy memory had there been a finer sing-sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: He Come Never No More | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Like all true Heldentenore (the Met's only first-rate example in years has been Lauritz Melchior), Darcy combines the lusty, ringing power of a baritone with a tenor's high range. When Darcy stepped into Melchior's place to sing Parsifal, he got a critical ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heldentenor Darcy | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...begin to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: ONTARIO: Dry Doggerel | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

From days immemorial the tawny Gil-bertese have chanted their folk sagas. Last week New York Timesman Robert Trumbull recorded one that "chanters yet unborn will sing"-the story of the U.S. 165th Infantry and the bathing girls of Makin Atoll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GILBERT ISLANDS: Manners Maketh Man | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

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