Word: voila
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...modestly): Voila! To affairs...
...visitors did it by winning four of the six singles matches--two after being down match point--and cruising home with a pair of victories in the doubles competition. All in all, an incredible total of eight sets came down to tiebreakers, and the men in red--voila--stole six of them...
...first, there's just a thickening of the skin. Suddenly the gloves and shoes become hooves; a horn sprouts menacingly from the forehead. Finally, a few angry grunts...voila, a rhinoceros. Thus does Eugene Ionesco give birth to his favorite symbol of modern "bourgeois" man. When, in Rhinoceros, the creature starts multiplying into a nasty herd, you have the beginning of an ugly, conformist and "sloganized" society that has become the playwright's chief target for over two decades of political and theatrical writing...
...simple, Toffler says, the society and economy, which was relatively easy to regulate during the feudal age, became too complex to be run by a handful of feudal barons. The inexorable trend toward modernization forced this small, powerful elite to involve more people in the decision making processes. Voila! The bourgeoisie...
...National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was about to replace the Ford Administration's NSSMs (National Security Study Memoranda) with PSMs (Presidential Study Memoranda)-until he realized it might be awkward trying to pronounce that particular acronym. Brzezinski quickly rechristened the reports PRMs (Presidential Review Memoranda), and voila, a new acronym was born-pronounced prims-and certain soon to become among Washington's best-admired bureaucratic mots...