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Word: topi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Postmaster General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris to Africa. whose four-letter words for the most part are confined to oryx, topi, lion and Zulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady's Not for Mailing | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Art of Not Dying | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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