Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a herd of the swiftest, smartest players in years. Almost all were high on the professional league's draft lists. All were razor-keen after three hard weeks training under old Pro Coach Curley Lambeau. Their high hope: to pass the champion New York Giants silly and wow their new pro employers. Then it began to rain, rain, rain down through the stadium lights, and 75,000 spectators saw the rookies' annual blooding work toward a familiar ending...
...level. And the better it is, the less its author will know about what he has written. Library statistics show that more has been written about Jesus, Hamlet and Napoleon than any other persons. Shakespeare didn't know what he had created. He probably thought to himself, 'I'll wow 'em with a court melodrama about the highest classes with the lowest morals, in which everyone gets killed...
...Danny Kaye, TV promotion of international understanding; Mutual and NBC's Bob and Ray, radio entertainment; New York City-owned WNYC's Books in Profile, radio education; WNYC's Little Orchestra Society Children's Concerts, radio youth or children's programs; Omaha's WOW's Regimented Raindrops, local radio-TV public service. Special awards went to United Nations radio and TV for promoting international understanding and to Critic Jack Gould for "outstanding contribution, through his New York Times writings." For the first time the Peabody committee recognized TV writing as a category, gave...
Testified famed Cardiologist Paul Dudley White: "Massachusetts has become a laughingstock because of its resistance to the removal of this handicap which threatens to stifle further advance in medicine and surgery.'' Nobelman John F. Enders spoke up for the bill. State Senator Philip G. ("Bow-wow") Bowker, 57, of Brookline declaimed: "It's a disgrace to tie the hands of medical researchers. I have two incurable diseases† in my body, but they are controlled because of animal experimentation. If it were not for that, I would be six feet underground...
...stretched contentedly in the soft office chair, sighed: "I just can't tell you how much less tired I've been feeling at the end of each working day." As for the patients, one psychiatrist said: "I'd summarize patient reaction as a kind of 'Wow!'" Another found a patient hesitant about "speaking terrible thoughts amid all this beauty," but another patient looked around, exclaimed: "There's something optimistic here...