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Still, science sometimes triumphs. In March of 1970, Somethingroyal dropped her foal by Bold Ruler at The Meadow. When Mrs. Tweedy visited the farm and saw the colt for the first time, she made a one-word entry in the notebook she keeps on her horses. The word was "Wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...powder. "Would anybody like a hit of coke?" she inquired casually, as if offering another drink. Indeed they would. Recalls one of the guests: "I was so wrecked by the time I left that I could barely find my way to the next party. But when I got there, wow! I was really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tyrannical King Coke | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...oneself of chains imposed by some other. Pleasure sharp and murderous, rages through her suddenly. Her motion inside the rain is a war; her battling unnoticed. Even though catcalls seem to be flying from all directions. Tiny boys whistle at her sturdy legs, gasping exclamations of gosh and wow! She pays no attention. Older men whistle and stare, tickled by her constant effort, her stamina, and amazed that she seems to be enjoying what to all of them is an annoyance to be escaped as soon as possible...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...thinks "Oh wow--what could be better." Well, Mr. Hip soon finds out that almost anything could be. Because--as we find out soon enough--the older of the two girls is intent on discovering whether it is possible to screw a man to death. "We're going to screw you to death," she tells Mr. Hip. And they did, well, almost did anyway...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 3/21/1973 | See Source »

...Wow, indeed. Many of the former TDOs have ended up marrying one of their luncheon guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Lunchtime Lotharios | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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