Word: wowing
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...couldn't see anyone. Pretty soon, here comes little Jack, Charlie Nicklaus' son, playing all by himself. That was his drive. I knew right then this kid was something. When you're only twelve and hit the ball that far-it must have been 275 yds.-wow!" A year later, at 13. Jack shot a 69 from the back tees at Scioto-a 7,095-yd. championship course that has been the site of the Open, the P.G.A. and the Ryder...
...dozen. My father knows Mickey Man'le, an' Roger Maris too." "Wow! Kin ya git me a autograph pitcha?" "Sure...
...example (I mean, I could go on all night--stop me if you've heard this before) shows Rindge Tech what bump and grind really means: half a green shirt and those creamy white pants. That's all she's got, and that's all she needs. Bump. Grind. Wow...
...requests each week from the writers and editors in New York. Sometimes all that is asked is one quick question, such as one requested for this week's comprehensive year-end business review: Are there any computers yet in Cameroun? (Back came the answer, in puzzled French-wow.) Whether the query asks clarification of a small obscure point or seeks a correspondent's full appraisal of a long-observed crisis, diversity is the correspondent's lot-and the reason that he did not pick a more prosaic trade...
...Herald Tribune music critic, Thomson campaigned for the performance of modern works and unfamiliar ancient ones, carped at the heavy concert ration of German, Italian and Slavic music, and set about with gusto to deflate what he thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders, papier-mâché, sandpaper and bits of old fur. But the whole...