Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandchildren lived on the out skirts of the old peoples' world, watching with awe the unchanging routine and deep-set beliefs of Grandmother, Nannie and Uncle Jimbilly. But away from this dying world they danced with the freedom of the new generation around the family graves that Grandmother had arranged among the cypresses...
...lordly dweller in the remote, cool, abstract world of mathematics, Einstein inspires in ordinary earthlings something of the awe which would greet a visitor from Mars. But a new biography by a member of his household (Einstein-An Intimate Study of a Great Man) ; Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), published this week, suggests that another secret of his fame may be his vast and simple humanity...
...effort for him to meet new people and he especially disliked crowds. Neat in his habits, he hated dirt, disorder and discomfort. Above all, he hated and feared war. Except for a few months of naval R.O.T.C. during World War I, he knew nothing about it. He stood in awe of professional war correspondents and firmly believed himself incompetent to become...
...photograph; Dewey the People's Choice; Dewey Witt Win) were piled in chin-high clumps. They were the same nononsense, black-lettered placards which had decorated the sober-looking Dewey headquarters at the Stevens Hotel for two days. Delegates who had visited the businesslike headquarters to look in awe at the machinelike efficiency of the Dewey staff had already seen them...
...Already the Finns' hard-earned high living standard has largely disappeared. But still they are determined to fight on with a grimness and single-mindedness which left me, after a fortnight in Finland, with increased respect for Finnish fortitude and brass, awe at Finnish political obtuseness, but increasing pessimism regarding Finland's future...