Word: wowing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...freshman year phenomenon—if anything, I’ve noticed the hatred for New Yorkers become more widespread and firmly rooted in our class. An acquaintance from the past few years recently discovered that I was from New York and remarked to another friend: “Wow, I never would have thought that. Her parents must have done a really good job raising...
...Shrek-shaped cap on a Crazy Hair confection and, after some initial befuddlement (of a kind no one under 12 would suffer), turns a dial on the bottom of the plastic tube. Sticky strands of chartreuse goo extrude through a nozzle and "grow" upward in apparent defiance of gravity. "Wow!" says Nestle, who has a deep appreciation for such ingenuity. She plunges in with a taste test. "Yech! So sour!" she complains. "And it sticks to your hands." Popping on her reading glasses, Nestle, who chairs the department of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, casts...
...perched a few hundred meters up on a large limestone plateau; the pay-per-view telescopes there will keep the kids intrigued. Lower down at La Roque Gageac-a compact village at the foot of the sheer cliff face-you'll find medieval ramparts and natural caves that will wow budding geologists...
...last September saw the debut of his McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology. Another instant icon, it's topped by a massive corrugated-steel tube intended both to muffle the noise of the railway line that passes overhead and to encourage another sound--wow!--from anybody passing...
...felt like I was doing very grownup stuff and I was having a great time with it,” he says. “I don’t think there was any time that I was thinking, ‘Wow, I could really be hanging out at the Fly or going to that party in Quincy house...