Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the bus carrying O'Dell Wills from Mississippi to Chicago in 1950 neared its destination, the sharecroppers' son could hardly contain his excitement. "When we hit the city limits," he recalls, "I said, 'Wow! I'm home free. This is heaven.'" Fifteen years later, Dorothy Tillman, a civil rights worker arriving from Alabama, saw the high-rise apartment buildings where most blacks then lived and had a different reaction. "Look at all them there factories in the middle of the city," she said to her companion. "Those are not factories," he replied. "People live there...
...unexpectedly strong defense. They also demonstrated--by their stealth-witness gambit--that they are prepared to push this case to the very limits of legality. Says Gigi Gordon, a leading Los Angeles defense attorney: ``Those jurors are all sitting around in their little hotel rooms right now thinking, Wow, four guys in watch caps! And whose blood is under her fingernails? Doubting. Doubting...
...walked onto the dais, Streisand lookedat the banks of national press cameras and tiersof audience members and mouthed "Wow...
...Eric," someone says to me, "you're covering the men's basketball team? What are they, [That Record]? Wow, they really stink...
...moved off abortion and other social issues and is focusing on fiscal matters. He warned the new Republican Congress in December, "Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch and you'll think, 'Wow! . . . I've really made it.' Don't fall for this. . . This is not the time to start trying to be liked...