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Word: whoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood off his knife with a skunk-cabbage leaf. She had red hair and her blouse was open between her breasts. The train was going through the tunnel and it made a glumph sound as it went in and the wail of the whistle came out way back there, whoo whoo whoooooo. He heard the man fit the key in the lock and go inside very softly as if he were ashamed. Adele, he pleaded, just once. Willie took the knife out of his jeans. You disgust me, said Adele. Willie tied her wrists to the top bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lurid Whirlpool | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...never knoo whoo put the oo in shampoo until I read the article on page fifty-tew of yoor March 8 ishoo. I won't pass judgment on phonics as a tule for teaching Jonny to read, but I must doubt that it improves his spelling. There are simply tew many exceptions to the rool-even when 'tew os get together tew say "boo." For example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...into tanks lots smaller than the ones we have now?" Answer: "Yes, but it is too expensive-the demand will have to be greater.") Typically, after one late night the irrepressible Cousteau was up at 7 o'clock, woke his traveling companions by bursting into their rooms shouting "Whoo-up!"-a cry he uses to rouse his divers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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