Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dive-bombers struck the leading cruisers and destroyers. Colonel Sweeney's heavy bombers went for the carriers, left one blazing. Four converted bombers, the first Army torpedo-planes ever recorded in action, hit the other carriers. Cried one of the pilots, "Boy, if Mother could see me now! Wow!" Two of the four went down after they had fired their torpedoes; the others limped home to Midway. The Navy had some land-based bombers and torpedo-planes on Midway, and these also joined the battle...
Neither did they know that each Saturday after the wow session the Major palmed a five-dollar bill off on the janitor for his effort: staying each evening until all the pigeons left the church and then mixing up all the little boxes of buttons back into the big barrels...
...four men: a patent attorney (Chairman William H. Davis) and three college professors (Dean Morse, North Carolina's Frank P. Graham, and Pennsylvania's George W. Taylor). Whether the act turned out to be juggling, tumbling, or actual lion taming, it was going to be a wow...
...sliding swiftly south toward Vermont. Newsmen on the train were bored, listless, let down after the four days of pressure in Ottawa. They had watched 12,000,000 Canadians having their greatest day since the King & Queen visited in 1939; had heard the sturdily sesquipedalian Prime Minister of England wow the House of Commons with his oak-hearted phrases, with a tactful tribute (in French) to the loyal French-Canadians; they had listened as he recalled the 1940 prophecy of French generals, that "in three weeks England will have her neck rung like a chicken," had roared with delight...
Please hand one large and beautiful bouquet to the guy responsible for the piece on Saroyan's Fables in the Books section of the Nov. 17 issue. It's a honey, a wow and the perfect commentary on the Saroyantics...