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Word: wot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost every day U.S. Army Liberators bombed the Marshalls; once they paid two visits between dawn and dusk. The big bombers pummeled Wot je's drome, tore up Taroa's runways, buildings and anchorage, damaged Jaluit's shore defenses, all secretly installed since the Japs took over this mandate from the unsuspecting League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Softening the Marshalls | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Antics. The town's best act is Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante, who, at the brightly Brazilian Copacabana with its gorgeous showgirls, is making his first real nose-to-nose appearance in twelve years. Schnozzle ("I know I'm not good-lookin', but wot's my opinion against tousands of odders?") has aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Better Late Than Ever | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...team is filled with sissies wot won't guzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mutiny in Brooklyn | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Wot do you mean?" said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Dickens of a Time | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...wot 'ud be the good of that?" said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Dickens of a Time | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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