Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Provost sent an enthusiastic thank you to Harry Truman, who had given his blessing to the tour. Last week, after a Ballet Theatre opener at Covent Garden, the London Daily Mail solemnly observed that the U.S.'s No. 1 ballet company was "what is popularly known as a wow...
...Chicago nightclub circuit of the 1930s knew Lou Reynolds as a handsome glib master of ceremonies who used to wow the customers with his own parody of My Blue Heaven. Lou Reynolds' real name was Louis Sebille, and that was the name he used during World War II when he flew 68 combat missions as a Marauder pilot, wound up with major's leaves and a chest full of medals...
...Lake Success, Admiral Chester Nimitz, mediator of the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, also took on the job of U.N. public-relations consultant, i.e., official spreader of good will. In Omaha, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews was named president of radio station WOW, Inc. In Boston, onetime Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld filed his papers for the Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts...
They were taken to Chinese plays and once saw a newsreel-of a May Day parade in Moscow. When the Communists celebrated a victory they even got native corn whisky. "Wow," said Bender. "We had some bourbon the other night and it tasted like water." But after months of escorted wandering about the village they became hopeless and depressed...