Search Details

Word: whee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

BILL GATES Whee! His personal fortune hits $100 billion; Microsoft wins Connecticut lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 26, 1999 | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...summer drives you away from where you live, your roots are indeed suspect. If it doesn't, though, and you live in Texas or any other state south of Maine, the only verb you use for three months of the year is buried in the contraction "innit," as in "Whee-ooo, innit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER: TOO DARN HOT: A DISSENTER'S VIEW | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...Whee...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Delegation From Cambridge to Visit Potential Sister City In Soviet Union | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

There was also a poetry recital of sorts including the "shortest poem ever written on what it's like to be as great as Ali." "Me? Whee...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Professor Muhammed Ali Delivers Lecture; Poems and Parables Fill Talk on Friendship | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...tossing spears, the Greek warrior Palamedes taught them to toss dice. The ivories have been chattering ever since. And so have the opponents of gambling. Attitudes toward gambling have followed a cycle of restriction and permissiveness, moving, in the words of one historian, "from never to sometimes to whee!" The early Greeks condemned it because it was considered detrimental to the order of the state, the ancient Egyptians because it was thought to make men effeminate. Summing up the view of the early church, Tertullian in the 3rd century A.D. denied that a dice player could be a Christian, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE (AND SHOULD THEY?) | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Next