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...Moore Gubbins thinks that whether it will be short and bloody or long and bloody, it's been going on for too bl(whoa)-too long, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bloody Gubbins | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Solution. In Tulsa, a runaway bakery horse ignored both the frantic tuggings of its driver and a pursuing cop, was brought to a sudden halt by a bystander, who called out: "Whoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1942 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...come off the grass!, curl up!, cut it (out) !, douse it!, dowse it!, drop it!, enuff!, fade away!, freeze!, hold on!, hold up!, kill it!, lay off!, leave off!, let up!, nix!, nix on that!, ring off!, sign off!, siphon off!, sound off!, stow it!, turn it off!, whoa Bill!, whoa Maud!, whoa Mud!, whoa there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Slang | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...Professor Schuman in advocating 1) Union Now; 2) immediate abolition of the "political independence" of nations; 3) the crushing of "secessionists or rebels" and the liquidation of troublesome "classes, factions and pressure groups"-and a number of other radical measures, all of which made TIME'S reviewer cry, "Whoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...moonfaced, twinkly-eyed, German-born little scrapper, was only slightly less famed than Williams, Yost, Rockne. He popularized the huddle, introduced the center's short spiral snap. To maneuvers he gave fancy names, such as the flea flicker, the whirligig, the sidewinder, the whoa back, the flying trapeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Zup's Setting Sun | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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