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...have news for Winston and Reader Hughes [TIME Letters, Aug. 4]. Snafu and cummfu are a bit old hat in Washington, along with tarfu ("things are really"), fubar ("beyond all realization"), fubb ("beyond belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...Hebrew phrase which is translated as "without form and void" in Genesis 1:2, is tohnvavohu. It is still highly current. Germans use it a lot these days to mean utter tarfu. In Palestine, too, it means chaos. Last week the situation in Palestine could only be described as tohuvavohu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tohuvavohu | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...translating "snafu" (positive) in a slightly bowdlerized form as "situation normal, all fouled up," and "tarfu" as "things are really fuddled up" (TIME, Nov. 30), you have overlooked the much more prevalent comparative form of "susfu," which we will for the sake of clarity as well as purity interpret as "situation unchanged, still fudged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A Mess, Anyhow | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...superlative, discovered by correspondents in Britain: "tarfu" ("things are really fouled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Superlative for Snafu | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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