Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Magic. In New Guinea, a Quartermaster Corps corporal got no cooperation from natives until his false teeth accidentally popped out. Thenceforth, reported the Army, he "was looked upon with respect and awe, and his orders were obeyed with alacrity...
Conway, Britain's famed training ship for officers of the merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven...
...George Gershwin than Hollywood, after its tinselly tributes to Chopin (A Song to Remember) and Victor Herbert (The Great Victor Herbert), might have been expected to accord. All the more praiseworthy because it deals with themes often fatal to good picturemaking, Rhapsody manages to portray a genius without groveling awe, to follow a rags to riches career without wallowing in melodrama, and to picture a warmly devoted, richly accented Jewish family on New York's lower East Side without slobberings of sentiment or catalepsies of caricature...
...Immediately several hundred Filipinos streamed out of a nearby village, jabbering excitedly and touching the Cub with awe; they hadn't seen more than three white men in a dozen years - they'd never seen a plane...
When the young wife of John Rapp, the leader's son, became pregnant, vengeance struck quickly. John was found dead and castrated near the Rappite piggery. The Rappites stood in awe in the face of such Divine Wrath, though there were whispers that young Rapp's earthly father had done the deed...