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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaining after a few glitches extended their space walk in and around the embryonic International Space Station by two hours. "You can't be telling me we're almost done," Barry said before ducking back inside the space shuttle Discovery at the end of the eight-hour free-float. "Wow. It feels like we just walked outside." The mission was mostly a prep for the crews to come: setting up space scaffolding, attaching cranes and hanging bags of tools on the exterior of the seven-story station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA's Construction Crew Keeps Busy | 5/30/1999 | See Source »

Indeed, though the last major miracle food product, Procter & Gamble's olestra fat substitute, helped make Frito-Lay's Wow! chips the best-selling new product of 1998, concerns continue over olestra's possible digestive side effects. It's important to remember, says Horowitz, that problems often don't appear in new foods until a lot of pepole have eaten them for prolonged periods. But even if the fallout is minimal, "stuffing yourself with a food product that may lower cholesterol will not grant you optimum health," she says. The best medicine is still the one that most Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Can't Believe It's Not Regular Margarine! | 5/18/1999 | See Source »

...Finally we had a guy walk in and without even thinking he went to [urinal] one," Helgen said. "Then it struck him and he thought, 'Wow. This is filled with...

Author: By William P. Bohlen and Mary C. Cardinale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pupils or Primates? | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

Random Television Executive: "WOW! Our ratings for 'The Best of Hee-Haw' just doubled overnight! Let's add two hours during primetime...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: The Power of a Couch Potato | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...president, I realize that "Vote for Ganeshananthan" isn't exactly, well, pithy. And absolutely nothing rhymes with it. It also makes posters and stickers expensive. I lose. I also begin to realize that when I leave phone messages with people who don't know me, I get the comment "wow" a lot. My mother and I get a similar reaction at the grocery store when she hands over her credit card...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Endpaper: It's All in a Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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