Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roger Lapham has all the 'attributes which make a man successful in business, but are supposed to damn him in politics. He is rich, belongs to swank Pacific Union and San Francisco Golf & Country clubs, plays "awe-inspiring" contract bridge, is regarded by his admiring son, Lewis, as one of the world's "two or three best putters." All these things might have added up to a "Barefoot Boy from...
...pneumonia leave Tuesday looking well rested. He has been moved back to company Charlie . . . In conclusion it might be remarked that it seems almost unbelievable that company Baker has finally become company Baker. It seems like only yesterday (to coin a phrase) that we lined up full of awe and confusion at 17 Quincy Street and wondered and wondered and wondered. Well, we're still wondering...
Twenty Toasts. Molotov himself set the social ball rolling with a lavish luncheon which moved on, course by relentless course, until 20 toasts had been offered and the clock stood at 3:30 p.m. By week's end Cordell Hull stood thoroughly in awe of Russian hospitality, reportedly groaned to a colleague: "I wish to preserve my strength for this highly important work we have come here to do with our Russian and British friends...
...citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings. But when their booty-laden wagons trundled away, they left behind a city reduced to beggary. Between Alaric and Hitler, none of the many sackings...
Anyone who is baffled by mathematics beyond the multiplication tables can imagine with awe the Brobdingnagian mental efforts involved in inventing a clerkproof, 5,500-part machine that adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides with the flick of a finger. Last week a 52-year-old Swedish inventor named Carl M. Fridé celebrated the tenth anniversary of the second time he had invented such a machine. Moreover, although the principle of an accurate calculator is already 123 years old, Carl Fridén's second model was further complicated by the fact that he could not infringe...