Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tracy's Odyssey leads him to the Philippines, where he serves as a guerilla and analyzes the United States for a group of awe-stricken natives under pale blue lighting...
When they got news of the atomic bomb, most intelligent men were filled with awe. Yet the most portentous news since that date has been the abundant evidence that mankind in general remains insufficiently aware of his predicament. There has been much talk about how to get the new monster into an unbreakable cage-and few admissions that the real monster is the human race...
...information," ostensibly for the British Ministry of Information. It had been better than his World War I service as an intelligence officer ("Nothing secret about it! Just questioning prisoners!"). It had almost satisfied his romantic dreams of 1925, when, as a new correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...
...lobby was crowded, too, with wives and friends of new Labor M.P.s. Many came straight from the bleak mining towns of the north. They gazed in awe at the unfamiliar pageantry. Completely unawed was Violet Attlee, who is still doing her own housework in her spick-&-span Stanmore villa, and has not yet moved into No. 10 Downing Street...
Among those who heard the news in awe and wonderment was Hermann GÖring, nervously awaiting trial as a war criminal. Said he: "A mighty accomplishment. I don't want anything to do with it. I am leaving this world...