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Word: ta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crafty Chris), in memeriam (Last Cent, Mama's Mink, Overtime), music (Rock 'n' Roll, Intermezzo), the sea (Blue Water, Sea Legs); little boats get little names (Yap Yap, Pixie); big ones get big names (Delphine, Trident, Chanticleer); and many are just hopefully witty (Tireless, Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than 35,000). Their women wear cute nautical jewelry: port (red) and starboard (green) earrings, charm bracelets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boat Fever | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...night at the alert, go to your camp and do it, but leave me in peace." He went back to his dinner, chuckling. "A coup d'état by the Juvento?" he scoffed. "Nonsense. They are much too busy dividing themselves into factions. They haven't time ta plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOGOLAND: The Helpful Neighbor | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...humming for the glory of organized labor: "I must have sung on every picket line the U.A.W. threw up." Even after she moved to the jazzy West Coast, she stuck to her guns, occasionally found some unique ammunition. Item: a girl "who was a little bit loony" led her ta a piece called Don't Sing Love Songs, You'll Wake My Mother, which (despite its college-musical title) turned out to be an all-but-forgotten ballad sung in the Tennessee mountains for a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: A Gasser | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Indiscreet. Cary Grant dispensing yachts and yacht-ta-ta to Ingrid Bergman in a funny, freewheeling romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Indiscreet. Gary Grant dispensing yachts and yacht-ta-ta to Ingrid Bergman in a funny, freewheeling version of Broadway's Kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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