Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernie Baruch ran the famed War Industries Board in World War I, showed such a grasp of total war that the German military men later wrote of his handiwork in awe. In World War II, from his favorite bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House, he has been an informal adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and many members of the war cabinet. But not until this week-except for his brief tour of duty investigating the 1942 rubber scandal-did Bernie Baruch lose his unofficial status. He will still serve without pay or title...
Soon duels were being fought in the air with rifles and pistols. With some awe, the B.E.F. Commander wrote home: "By actually fighting in the air, they have succeeded in destroying five of the enemy machines." Thereafter, fighter pilots spent most of their spare time cleaning, readying their rifles and newly installed machine guns. They tied steel helmets over vulnerable parts of the aircraft-scanty protection when, in 1915, German Fokkers sprang a surprise with machine guns designed to fire through the propeller blades. As their planes grew sturdier, British pilots not only filled their pockets with grenades but also...
...made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines near the Chilean and Peruvian borders, his name was spoken with reverence. On festive days thousands of Indians crowded Lake Titicaca's shores, watched in awe and admiration as Paka-Jake swam: no mortal, sensible Indian would think of swimming in the holy water which is also ice cold...
Henry Lee Smith Jr.'s secretary can ask her way to the ladies' room in 26 languages. Her boss is one of the world's top linguists. Small, fast-talking, Baltimore-born Henry Lee Smith Jr., Ph.D. (Princeton), used to awe nationwide radio audiences by interviewing people and telling, by their dialects and inflections, what parts of the U.S. they were from. Often he was able to detect not only Philadelphia, for example, but also what part of Philadelphia. Today Lieut. Smith has a full-time job teaching soldiers, via phonograph records, a smattering...
Only a hundred men could get a chance to strain their abdomens, Conditioner Clarke said. Immediately the plaintive cries rang out from the multitude, but all was well, "Go home," said Clarke, you'll get credit anyway. And so the awe-stricken students field out, unhealthy but happy...