Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign trail, the ex-President looked and sounded like the old Quadros; so sure was he of victory that he introduced himself at rallies as "your governor." But the erratic, wild-haired Quadros, who says that "occult forces" drove him from the presidency, did not wow the voters as he had before. Favoring a predictable politician over the unpredictable one, they gave the lead to a somewhat shopworn old figure named Adhemar de Barros, whose scandal-tainted state administration was turned out by Quadros eight years ago. A Quadros aide passed word that the ex-President was again considering...
...displayed formidable powers as a moralist, an ironist, a calligraphist of violence. In Ikiru, one of cinema's rare great works of art. he revealed a rugged realism, an exquisite humanity, a sense for what is sublime in being human. Now. in a movie that is both a wow of a show and a masterpiece of misanthropy, Kurosawa emerges as a bone-cracking satirist who with red-toothed glee chews out his century as no dramatist has done since Bertolt Brecht...
...couldn't see anyone. Pretty soon, here comes little Jack, Charlie Nicklaus' son, playing all by himself. That was his drive. I knew right then this kid was something. When you're only twelve and hit the ball that far-it must have been 275 yds.-wow!" A year later, at 13. Jack shot a 69 from the back tees at Scioto-a 7,095-yd. championship course that has been the site of the Open, the P.G.A. and the Ryder...
...dozen. My father knows Mickey Man'le, an' Roger Maris too." "Wow! Kin ya git me a autograph pitcha?" "Sure...
...example (I mean, I could go on all night--stop me if you've heard this before) shows Rindge Tech what bump and grind really means: half a green shirt and those creamy white pants. That's all she's got, and that's all she needs. Bump. Grind. Wow...