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Word: yoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Btfsplk Does It | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Technical Sergeant Gus T. Brown, Luling, Tex.: "I landed halfway down a mountainside and found myself buried to the waist in snow. ... I kept warm by making a shelter of my parachute. I saw a light across the valley and started yoo-hooing and heard an answer. Someone called 'Amerikano?' We turned and said 'yes' and they hollered back 'Chetniks.' They came running down toward us and we hollered with joy, so they started kissing us and we started kissing them, beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Mission for Mihailovich | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...House of Lords Britain's most revered document came up for examination. As the Lords voted to lend the Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spring-Cleaning | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Others going or gone: 66-year-old Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-hoo") Lear, who fought in the Spanish-American war, onetime chief of the Army Ground Forces; Major General Charles P. Gross, director of the Army's complex and titanic transportation during the last three years of the war; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, famed wartime chief of the Eighth Air Force (see PEOPLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Shaking Down the Stars | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...Schmid has a compelling doggedness and honesty. The cast, especially Messrs. Garfield and Clark, put it over with a notable absence of affectation. The picture's single, sustained combat sequence is keenly written and filmed, fiercely exciting, with its shrilling obbligato of the enemy's "Mreen yoo dyee (Marine, you die!) Mreen tonight yoo dyee!" set against the jabbing technical chatter of the frantically overworked machine-gun crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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