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...nothing about golf were gladdened by the news of Arnie's aces. "I've done a lot of unusual things," he says. "But when that second ball went in (on the fly this time), I've never felt anything like that before." Striding to the green, he kept muttering, "Aw, my goodness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Aces and a King | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...didn't you?" the boy appealed to his younger friend. "Man, you're just doing this 'cause we're Black. This isn't fair." His companion smiled charmingly at the ticket seller and said in a tone, perhaps meant to remind her of her own son, "Aw com'on, it's hot. Our mother wants us home. Don't make us walk." But the ticket seller held her ground and the older boy started screaming again...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Day on The Red Line | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

Given the deficiencies of the genre, the cast of Charlie Brown, led by actor-director Henry Biggs, does well enough, eliciting giggle and aw's from the audience of tots and teenyboppers. The several dozen children who were there Saturday will testify to that. They were smiling and laughing out loud...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Baby Peanuts | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

Does it in about a quarter of a second. Hasn't much time to spare these days. Slight aw-shucks duck of his head, gentle smile, a glint of fond memory behind his eyes, and for a few minutes he's standing in an old ivy hall someplace and you can almost hear the mellow chords of the glee club float with the fresh breeze through the open window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: In Search of History | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Aw, shucks," cried Charlie, "but buying illegally just isn't as much fun as buying legally...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Toss the Feds Out of the Saloon | 2/20/1986 | See Source »

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