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Word: woof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poland's University of Lwów (which Americans might as well pronounce woof) is 285 years old, and nobody knows the troubles it's seen. When the Big Three gave the Polish city of Lwów to Russia, the University lost its home. It found a new home by crossing Poland to Breslau, a German city which the Big Three gave to Poland in exchange for Lwow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lw | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...Woof: engineers' slang for goodbye, similar to a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Womp & Woof | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...Time & again, he dipped at the knees and rolled with the breeze. He slapped the carpet with his hands, suffered awful tortures on the near misses. He three-putted two greens. West Virginia's Sambo contented himself with a puckered-up Bogart face and an occasional "Woof!" Neither of them sank a man-size putt all day. But Snead felt he couldn't lose, because it was his 33rd birthday, and he won by a stroke-with a three-over-par 70-73 = 143. He did it by outplaying ironmaster Nelson with the irons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putter Trouble | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...right time. Through the periscope I saw he had been hit just behind the conning tower and sank very quickly. It was quite fun; it gives you quite a kick. His stern sank lower and lower, and his bow came up out of the water, right straight up, and woof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Good Time in the Depths | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Souk-el-Spaatz the entire air command has become an interlacing of U.S. warp and British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: The Plotters of Souk-el-Spaatz | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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