Word: wowing
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...daringly wrote her answer--"Interested, sorta," and slipped it in the collar-slot. Ten days later came another shirt from x428Fy and, sure enough, another note: "If you can cook like you can write I may be smitten beyond recall. Fascinated?" This time she almost swooned, and wrote back, "Wow, am I!" Anyhow, note followed hot note and Miss Jomes began thinking of turning in her steam iron for a marriage manual. Until one day tragedy struck. x428Fy's shirts arrived as usual, but when Miss Jomes turned to the slot she found it sewn-up. Frantic, she tried...
...wailng chant of a solo male voice. Against a plain black backdrop swirled brilliantly costumed dancers, unfolding exotic tales of lust and vengeance, ecstasy and evil. The occasion: the Broadway opening, prior to a U.S. tour, of the Indian dance group headed by Shanta Rao (rhymes with wow...
...with a herd of the swiftest, smartest players in years. Almost all were high on the professional league's draft lists. All were razor-keen after three hard weeks training under old Pro Coach Curley Lambeau. Their high hope: to pass the champion New York Giants silly and wow their new pro employers. Then it began to rain, rain, rain down through the stadium lights, and 75,000 spectators saw the rookies' annual blooding work toward a familiar ending...
...level. And the better it is, the less its author will know about what he has written. Library statistics show that more has been written about Jesus, Hamlet and Napoleon than any other persons. Shakespeare didn't know what he had created. He probably thought to himself, 'I'll wow 'em with a court melodrama about the highest classes with the lowest morals, in which everyone gets killed...
...Danny Kaye, TV promotion of international understanding; Mutual and NBC's Bob and Ray, radio entertainment; New York City-owned WNYC's Books in Profile, radio education; WNYC's Little Orchestra Society Children's Concerts, radio youth or children's programs; Omaha's WOW's Regimented Raindrops, local radio-TV public service. Special awards went to United Nations radio and TV for promoting international understanding and to Critic Jack Gould for "outstanding contribution, through his New York Times writings." For the first time the Peabody committee recognized TV writing as a category, gave...