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Word: wows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vial containing the antidote to a poison he has just swallowed. Gong! another production number commences, with Indy and Willie scrambling on the floor to find the antidote and the diamond among flying ice cubes, bullets, balloons and feet as the chorus giddily scatters through the chaos. Wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Keeping the Customer Satisfied | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

Trailing streaks of vaporized gas, with the dawn light glinting on its white thermal coating, space shuttle Challenger swooped over the sun-baked mountains of California's Mojave Desert late last week for a perfect, centerline landing. Indeed, the touchdown was what shuttle pilots approvingly call a wow WONG (weight on wheels, weight on nose gear). As the 98-ton orbiter rolled to a stop on the seven-mile-long, hard-baked desert runway at Edwards Air Force Base, mission control radioed a heartfelt "Welcome back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Capturing an Errant Satellite | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...Cornell stole everything when it defeated the Crimson, 76-67, at Briggs Athletic Center last night. Wow, it's over...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: The Dream That Died | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

...Kathy Carroll's shooting was dynamite," Harvard Coach John Dooley said after the game. "When Kelly Landry learns how to skate, wow! Then the other teams are going to be in trouble...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Icewomen Beat B.U., 7-0, Carroll, Landry Hat Trick | 12/13/1983 | See Source »

...explaining that he would see what kind of shape the players were in by making them run four miles and swim two on the first day of practice. "I practically sprinted the whole first four miles and left everybody in the dust," he recalls. "Assistant Coach Peter Lansbury yelled, 'Wow, did you see Yifter run?' in reference to the Ethiopian sprinter Miruts Yifter who won the 5000 and 10,000 meters in the Olympics that summer. He is a small, dark-complexioned guy, too. to this day half the people I know introduce me as Yifter...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Steve Munatones and Dave Fasi | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

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