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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some legal scholars were as shocked as the defense team by the length of the jail time. "Wow! I'm surprised," said Harry First, a New York University law professor who specializes in white-collar cases. "I was expecting five years just based on what other people have gotten." Declared Columbia law professor Harvey Goldschmid: "The message being sent is that you've got to play within the rules of the game. White-collar crime will be taken seriously and sentenced in a serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stiff Term for the Wizard | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Spain!" drummer Louis Perez Jr. realized after a moment. "Wow!" Well, maybe they weren't quite so far away after all. Spiritually, Los Lobos has always dwelt midway between Los Angeles and Garcia Lorca, playing hard, dreaming darkly, finding a somber poetry on the sunny streets of the Mexican-American area the band called home. That's The Neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Long Way Round to Home | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...enjoying my classes, but I'm not sitting there thinking, `Wow, number one on U.S. News' list--it doesn't get any better than this,'" she said. "I haven't met anyone whom just speaking to overwhelmed...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Students Battle Anxiety, Stress | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

...young adolescent, and also the wearying energy, sloppiness, ignorance and complete lack of subtlety and taste. At the length of a good ghost story, he is amusing and enjoyable with spooky stuff about, for example, an airliner, most of whose passengers disappear as it flies, leaving behind (wow!) their tooth fillings and pacemakers; and a well-sketched village miser who steals a Polaroid camera that obstinately produces shots of (eek!) a savage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wide-Bodies On the Runway | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Wow. That's pretty amazing...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Games First-Years Play | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

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