Word: oomphing
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...futile attempt to break Britain's will. A half-century and a technological revolution later, the cruise missile has evolved into a superbly accurate flying bomb that can hit almost any spot on earth. It has also become President Bill Clinton's weapon of choice to provide the explosive oomph to back up his foreign and security policy. It is small and expensive, but it has the immense advantage of purring off to its targets by itself, putting no Americans at risk. No more Mogadishus...
...kissing scenes with D.J. were tricky. I was a bit apprehensive during big make-out scenes because it is a kid's show, and there's an audience in the studio. After one take the director came up and told me to "give it a little oomph. "We tried the scene again, and I got more into it, after which the director, over a loudspeaker from the booth, told me "you don't have to chew her face...
...many can hum from start to finish. The orchestra attacked it with zest and did a fine job handling this picturesque masterpiece. However, with so well known a piece, any orchestra has to work that much harder to present the music in an engaging and expressive manner. That extra oomph was lacking in the Bach Soc's standard, somewhat unoriginal interpretation of the symphony. The most lyrical moments sometimes came across as a bit too brisk and deliberate--as, for example, in the famous cuckoo trill bridging the second and third movements. Tipler's choice of tempi was a little...
...work out some kinks in the Hakuna Matata number, which ends the first act. The pop-up cactus plants need to inflate sooner. The "bug boxes" that roll across the stage, displaying grubworms, spiders and other crawly creatures, are moving too slowly. More troublesome, the number lacks a little oomph at the end. She tells Max Casella, who plays Timon the meerkat, to try some twirls and flourishes, and maybe a wave to the audience, as he exits and the curtain falls...
...leakage is greatest during geomagnetic storms, which happen when the sun turbocharges the solar wind by spewing out giant blobs of plasma. Ejected at extremely high speeds, they push particles through the magnetosphere with an unusual amount of oomph. During solar minimum, the biggest blobs come from openings in the sun's magnetic field called coronal holes. "Gas spews out of these holes," explains University of Colorado space physicist Daniel Baker, "like water from a fire hose's nozzle." If the nozzle is aimed toward earth, the consequences can be dramatic. Plasma from coronal holes may well have triggered...