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Word: whee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a shuffle beat. In order to take the form of a penguin, each dancer keeps his arms at his sides with palms extended in a position parallel with the floor to imitate the flippers. When the music stops, the dancers poke each other in the stomach and yell, "Whee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freed Acclaims New 'Lampoon' Dance | 1/15/1962 | See Source »

...sometimes, thin and overdrawn, the poor child would come home from work in the whee hours of the morning with a wicked case of "the mean reds." For this condition, a sort of moral hangover, there was only one cure. She would take a cab to Tiffany's jewelry store and lay her head against the elegant little show windows. That ice felt so good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Once Over Golightly | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...materialized in a $400,000 Victorian house on Chicago's North State Street, complete from the half-acre bed to the woo grotto. No wonder its owner says "Life is beautiful." He is Hugh Marston Hefner, 34, editor and publisher of Playboy Magazine, a sort of editorial whee, whose candy castle-aswarm with Playboy's celebrated center-spread Playmates-symbolizes the expansion of his young empire into show business. Scarcely a year in operation, Hefner's members-only Playboy key club has become the largest employer of entertainment talent in Chicago and is the prototype of more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playgrounds: The Boss of Taste City | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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