Word: agog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggested Columnist Tony Clifton in the Sunday Times of London, might a Russian reporter with a conspiratorial imagination interpret recent events in Britain. Clifton was taking a puckish poke at Kremlinologists in the West. Suspicious by trade, they have been agog with speculation and wild surmise about the deaths of twelve Russian generals within a recent 17-day period...
Meanwhile, the two Yale high jumpers were agog. Both had jumped well over six feet before. But that day neither of them could clear it. Rittenburg picked up his third first place...
...firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified air rifle and pellets wadded with cottonlike propellant, the 6-ft. 3-in. Belgian squeezed off shots whose velocity was clocked at almost 1,500 ft. per sec., the speed of a conventional .22-caliber bullet. Hough was agog. "I couldn't believe it," he recalls. Hurrying back to his hotel room with Van Langenhoven's rifle and a supply of the propellant, he spent the evening enthusiastically peppering a thick telephone directory propped against the wall. Only after Hough had exhausted his ammunition and examined...
...grey line in the script. It is a kind of intellectual and philosophical whodunit, aimed at discovering the truth of a situation. A government clerk (Sydney Walker), his wife and his mother-in-law (Helen Hayes) have recently arrived in an Italian town. Their new neighbors are all agog because he keeps the women in separate quarters, so that they can communicate only via notes put in a lowered basket. A convocation of irate gossipmongers, including the clerk's boss, summons the mother-in-law for an explanation...
Audiences watch and listen agog as the big, blond, open-shirted Siberian submits to the passion of his verse and rolls a voice like an organ through the packed halls...