Word: aahed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Locals. What we aah is locals," I said, laying on a touch of New Hampshire accent...
...Harvard power-play, with all its cardiac caroms and ooh-aah near misses, look inspiringly crisp for an opening game. Although only one man-up tally was managed by the Crimson, you can't help but get the feeling that the Harvard power-play will be more goal-hungry and much nastier than the dyslexia we were treated to at times last year...
...audience to take a random young woman by the hand onto the stage, it occurred to me what the seating ruckus was all about. I suppose it must be traditional by now that a pretty young thing gets escorted onstage so the thirteen finger-snapping young men can ooh, aah, ooh at her while 1400 ticketholders in the audience can only pity the young thing who gapes out, rigor-mortified, at the shadowy mass. Even if this was where Anita Bryant got her big break, is it really worth all the trouble...
Conspiracy, conspiracy, all is conspiracy, it creeps in this petty pace, Aah. But there's more, a one-man conspiracy, in fact, devoted only to the propagation of "seamless" prose, effortless to read. His name is John McPhee, he is perhaps the finest non-fiction in America, and he writes on anything, from oranges to flying machines, from tennis to bark canoes. [MORE]'s profile is not so finely crafted, but McPhee's light has been so long under the bushel basket that even this brief uncovering is dazzling...
...stretched for a look at the clock. 4:24 p.m. He said, "Aah, I gotta go," flipped his notebook shut and dashed out faster than he had come in. Behind him four or five onlookers stared up at the pillars and the ceiling, oblivious for once to the endless reams of Widener's file cards...