Word: agog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forthright Professor Artturi Virtanen, Finland's Nobel Prizewinner (1945) in chemistry, broke the long silence of his country's intelligentsia. In Stockholm for scientific talks, he set all Scandinavia agog by bluntly telling a Communist newsman...
...Agog over having a free drill period tomorrow, we scarcely know what to do with ourselves. Turning somewhat metropolitan, your scribes haunted the empire city and found it much to the liking of many who are weekly confined to the limits of Beantown. We are still in the process of figuring out how 200 miles could make such a difference...
...newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
...Hans Kahle listened intently to a recording of Adolf Hitler's New Year's speech. Certain phrases they played over & over, or compared with similar phrases in recordings of other Hitler speeches. They were sleuthing in sound, trying to unravel a mystery that had the British press agog: was this New Year's orator really Adolf Hitler...
...good time" boys shot down New York over the weekend. Green and gory are the tales they tell. Over Company 4 the fellas are all agog over the celebrity in their midst--a full-fledged cinema hero, no less. The object of the adulation, particularly from such cowpuncher worshippers as Pryor, Price and Rogers, is J. B. Morris, who in pre- war days was that grade-B hero, Gene Buck, the singing cowboy...