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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked what she thought about Harvard boys, Miss Courtney replied: "Wow, I've always wanted to meet a Harvard man, and now that I finally have a date, I'll have to go out with a thousand at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comedienne, Jazz Highlight Smoker | 2/25/1953 | See Source »

This display of armed might was Britain's answer to the Mau Mau (rhymes with bow-wow), the African secret society that threatens to wipe out Kenya's 30,000 whites (TIME, Oct. 27). Part land hunger, part savage revolution against the domineering white man and the bewildering 20th century, the Mau Mau's blind fury could, if left unchecked, turn the Crown Colony of Kenya into another Malaya. Once pooh-poohed as mere "press exaggeration," the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and "loyal" blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga-a long, machete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Meow-Meows | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...accessory is a tribute to the woman's mind, the triumph of the little thing. Were it not for the sprinkle of papered flowers stuffed majestically in a deccoletage, the pin which adorns a form fitting sweater, who would notice that which is woman? Who would say, "Wow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accessories Work Miracles; Vitalize Grimmest Garments | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

...this before!" exclaimed one startled dowager. And she was not alone. Before the curtain was down on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's passionate masterpiece last week, there was many another exclamation; some were snorts from traditionalists, but most of them were something like "Wow!" The New York Journal-American's headline summed it up: JUST SHORT OF SENSATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alley-Cat Carmen | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...member of Stanford's winning 1941 Rose Bowl team, All-America Guard Chuck Taylor was one of the Indians' "Wow" boys.* Now, in his first year as a coach, burly (204 Ibs., 5 ft. n4r in.) Chuck Taylor has a winning Stanford team of his own: the "How" boys. The question in the minds of the sportwriters who nicknamed the team: How do they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanford's How Boys | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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