Word: oomph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pass: Well, you know there's something called starting friction; now on this ice here, when you put the car in low gear and step on your pedal, you've got too much oomph under you to catch...
Pass: The thing to do is to stick her into third, or at least second, and ease her off gently, without too much oomph...
...more than half of each advance. Much of the increase in personal income, which continues to set new records each month, is also offset by higher price levels. The. experts believe that people may develop a resistance to industry's high-priced products, which in turn takes more oomph out of the boom...
...gave no more information, but some of the military problems of an underground atom bomb are fairly obvious. Nuclear explosives are getting cheaper and more plentiful, and they can perform with extra oomph many of the familiar military duties of chemical explosives. Items...
...making $400 a week posing for Ipana, beer ads, Old Golds. Photographer Ruzzie Green describes her as "what we call 'nice clean stuff' in our business. She's not a top model and never will be. She's the girl next door. No glamour, no oomph, no cheesecake. She has lovely shoulders but no chest. Grace is like Bergman in the 'clean' way. She can do that smush stuff in movies like-remember all those little kisses in Rear Window?-and get away with it." A friend remembers her at this period as "terribly...