Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stalin and Khrushchev would be proud of Gorbachev, who is no different in his attempts to strengthen the Soviet economy and expand Soviet influence throughout the world. He is only the first General Secretary with enough Western-style charisma to wow the world community. He has taken the initiative by pouring forth a deluge of proposals for arms reduction, making the United States appear inflexible when we don't accept them...
...company survives. The fledgling firm, founded in 1985 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend on the strength of two blockbuster toys: Teddy Ruxpin, the personable talking bear that debuted in 1985, and last year's Lazer Tag ray-gun game. The company, soon known aptly enough as WOW, chalked up earnings of $18.6 million on sales of $327 million during its past fiscal year, making it one of the fastest-growing new manufacturing concerns in history. But in the view of industry analysts, the company expanded too swiftly and spent too much money just as the toy market began...
...winner was NBC's galloping "news correspondent" Tom Brokaw, fresh from his exclusive prime-time pow-wow with Gorby in Moscow. He still has trouble pronouncing words that begin with the letter "L", but he was in charge throughout with the help of the same bell that rings when letters are turned on Wheel of Fortune. Candidates knew their minute was up when a soft electronic bell was cued, much like Johnny Carson knows he has to break to a commercial when the pianist breaks into arpeggios...
...League champions. Wow. And it wasn't a lost weekend after...
...steam shovel was reportedly digging up the Yale Bowl turf, and a large steel object resembling a central heating unit was being lowered into the resulting hole and the field was being sodded by a single unknown figure wearing a Yale hockey jersey and blue sunglasses. Cozza said, "Wow, he's great. He must be a superman. Where is he? I need him for the defensive line...