Word: oomph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time came at last for that most bewildering of American phenomena, the inaugural parade, a fixture that comes so naturally to a spectacle-loving public that few people ever think to question its necessity or its form. Yet there it was, with all the oomph and oompah, the crashing brass, the flights of unwitting comic relief, the displays of acrobatics, the precision marching, the dimpled knees and limber legs, the earnest faces of the young people who had come from all over the nation...
During his freshman year, Croasdale was hailed as a potential 60' shot-putter, but those hopes were dashed when Art suffered a crippling sprained tendon in his throwing hand. Still unable to give the shot that extra oomph, Art set a University record this spring with a 57' 4" put in the Greater Boston Championships...
...much the same position is Quadrangle, who won a brilliant victory in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct two weeks ago. Quadrangle is sharper than jail house coffee right now but he probably lacks the necessary oomph in the stretch to hold off Hill Rise...
...Jane keeps busy running the Women's Adoption International Fund (WAIF), which has placed 11,000 homeless children since she founded it in 1954. But once in a while she slips back into harness. And she has not lost much of the old (38-24-36) Outlaw oomph. Poured into a gown for a three-week engagement in Las Vegas with Singers Connie Haines and Beryl Davis, she found it all choked up, and grabbed a scissors. "I just cut it to a decent V," she murmured. "What was cheesecake in The Outlaw days is like a Mother Hubbard...
Northrop is already planning other applications for VIPS-submarines, missile countdowns, fire warnings in public buildings. But Gina belongs to the Air Force. Said one SAC pilot last week: "That dame has plenty of oomph in hervoice...