Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everything a career diplomat should have: he was wealthy, studious, shrewd, affable, full of both principle and humor. Colleagues in the State Department regarded him with awe. One of them once said: "You can't compare Armour to anyone else in the service; he's one of a species, like Lincoln...
Everyman. Listening tothe people talk, the pollsters found awe, fear, cynicism, confusion, hope-but mostly confused fear and hopeful confusion. They found a substantial minority expectation that atomic experiments will end the world some day, a vague majority confidence that somehow everything would work out and that man would somehow be better off in the long...
...life (26 years) sallow, dewy-eyed Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, had been anxious to please, an attitude largely conditioned by his autocratic father, the late, tough Reza Shah Pahlevi. Like his ten brothers and sisters, Mohamed Reza grew up in awe and admiration of the domineering old martinet who rose from the soil to root a dynasty in nothing more substantial than the high, dry air of Teheran's political intrigue...
...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...
Many U.S. critics have hailed Author Remains' jumbo panorama with awe. Wrote Critic Clifton Fadiman who has been awed all along: "When the little ones ask, 'Grandfather, what did you do before the revolution?' perhaps the only answer many of us will be able to make will be, 'I was a contemporary of Jules Romains...