Word: agog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cabinet ministers come and go in the government of President Guillermo Leon Valencia, 55, and Colombians generally pay little attention. Last week one minister who had been loyally with Valencia for 21 years was out of a job, and the country was agog...
...aboard his special DC-3 for a flying tour of the central coastal region. Dropping in on the fishing town of Hamtan, by the South China Sea-the first time in the republic's history that its head of government had visited the place-Khanh set the locals agog. Elegant in camouflage-pattern combat fatigues, he strolled down a sandy street, chatted with a crowd, asked a dumfounded schoolgirl, "Did you pass your exams?"-and drew cheers of "Hoan ho trim tuong [Hail to the general...
...this is before Kay's death) has gathered to meet Lakey, the Group goddess, fairest link in the Daisy Chain (the prettiest sophomores chosen each year by the seniors), on her return from Europe. How has this incomparable green-eyed beauty defeated the fates that have battered them? Agog, the seven watch Lakey land with 17 trunks and suitcases crammed with clothes, art loot-and a stubby "baroness," her constant companion. Slowly these green girls (some mothers by now) come to understand that Lakey, the Madonna of the Smoking Room, is a Lesbian. She has defeated man by becoming...
Morley became a member of the peer group in 1929 after his short stories had been published in McAlmon's This Quarter, and he had followed all agog from Toronto in its imperceptible wake. Soon. Morley was able to match anyone in the regional game of literary oneupmanship, and he knew who was meant when some one mentioned Eliot.* He proudly recalls the day he put in their places a couple of young squirts who thought they were In because they could recognize Hemingway in the streets. They thought a little man who followed Hemingway carrying...
...column about it that I do not understand, although I suspect it to be approving. The magazine's letter pages grin with encouraging notes from progressive members of the Congress. Publisher Chapman and Editor Gilder have accepted (I hear) numerous speaking engagements. If the entire country is not exactly agog with Advance, at least the part of it that is has spoken not the least unkindness...