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Word: wow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally modest and easygoing outside the ring, Spinks seemed overwhelmed by his victory. "I'm just thinking wow, man, it's great, it's great! Sometimes I just can't believe it," he gushed. "I'm the best young heavyweight, but I ain't the greatest. He was the greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leon Spinks Becomes a Somebody | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...church; it is not a political holiday so there is no parade downtown; nothing is for free like on Halloween, not even love, so I'm just gonna stroll on over to the Coop or Store 24 and catch some more jollies looking at Valentine's Day cards. Oh wow, how cruel--I know just the guy to send this one to! Oh my God, is that awful, so suggestive--she'd love it! But what about grandma...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...Workers' Accident Insurance Institute in Prague: his magnificent hallucinations have collapsed in the public mind to the scale of a worn-out adjective-one that turns the Beelzebub he implied (totalitarian bureaucracy, the Holocaust, the Gulag) into something only slightly more menacing than the Cookie Monster. "Oh, wow," protests the 17-year-old asked to prove she is old enough to drink. "That's really Kafkaesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius of the Blackest Impulses | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...Cleary: Wow. What got them so excited last February in the Beanpot final...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: You Don't Say | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

Crimson: Wow. What happened on B.U.'s winning goal...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: You Don't Say | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

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