Word: agog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pyne once played in a tournament at Morris County and was agog to find his opponent wearing red suspenders on the course. The fellow turned out to be a prominent haberdsher who tried to sell Percy the clothes off his back during the entire round...
Since that day in mid-March, Kinshasa has been agog. Though initial predictions that 30,000 foreign visitors would descend on the ill-equipped capital have proved far too optimistic, fight preparations are still elaborate. Thousands of precooked frozen meals have been flown in. As le super combat approaches in the former Belgian Congo, the weed-infested median along Kinshasa's main boulevard has suddenly blossomed with flowers; new street lights have been installed and virtually every building in town has been scrubbed or painted...
...Vanderbilts were here this morning and so were the Sonny Whitneys and the Ogden Phippses and they were all agog at the cute little brown horse done in saddle cloth colors of gold and turquoise with rose tassels in his mane. And speaking of eating out, everyone was doing just that under the early morning purple sky on the green grass as Harry M. Stevens caterers provided a spread of truffles and figs and express made on an open air wood fire...