Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army informed Japan that the ghosts of the men killed on Attu had helped the Kiska garrison in its flight, and were now guarding Japan's own shores. And just as gravely, many an official reported with awe the Emperor's interest in food, coal or steel problems-"an honor beyond expression...
Said the London Times in its epitaph: ". . . Fellow guests in a Stratford hotel, watching with covert awe the two breakfasting together, all seem to have derived the same impression. It was the professional wit who listened and laughed. It was his wife who made the jokes. This was a true reflection of their life together. Mr. Shaw valued her criticism, knowing it sprang from a genuine love for the arts and a shrewd native wit. She, for her part, was a devoted Shavian. . . . She shirked none of her fancies from youth to old age, and she faced the last...
...Army's veteran tankmen. In World War I he was a private. The Civil War gave him an opportunity to display his talents, saw him rise to the command of a cavalry division. Today his soldiers rate Vatutin as a "driving general," recall with awe last winter's campaign, when with fury and disdain for physical suffering he hurled his men into attack in the fiercest blizzards until the Nazi defenses in the Don loop crumbled...
Prisoners who were planning escapes were almost sacred to their comrades. At night a group of two or three, concealed behind a blanket, would go to work forging papers, altering clothes, rehearsing in costume. "One let them alone, tacitly, unless they asked for help. One looked at them in awe, but from a distance...
...Department No. 2 is the province of chill, correct, intelligent Sumner Welles, whose ability is generally underestimated by the citizenry, who are either so awe struck or repelled by his attitude that they miss the man himself. Welles, product of Groton and Harvard, an ace career diplomat, is the author of the Good Neighbor Policy which Mr. Roosevelt adopted...