Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school needed [in the post-Civil War South]," he says, "was a little.learning and a lot of physical strength. Sawney . . . had both." A tough man, he sometimes came to class with a scratch on his hand and "allowed it to bleed unnoticed as the boys sat in awe at the brave show...
Gradually the amateurish ensemble acquires split-second precision, an incandescent tone, emotional depth. The students, conscious of the miracle happening to them, talk of "Koussie" in awe. Said one: "We're like a Rockne-coached football team. Other teams have coaches who have adopted the Rockne system, but we have Rockne himself...
...tactical possibilities in snatching gliders from the ground were enough to awe a Clausewitz: troops and material could be swiftly collected and swiftly delivered here & there in the heat of battle, in places impossible for airports. A mountain range could be filled with troops overnight. (A glider can land in a small clearing, stop almost instantly.) Since the gliders can be picked up again, commanders could accelerate emergency shipments to areas far distant from supply dumps. Mayhap tank-toting gliders will whoosh down to buttress surprise offensives...
Though he feuded with aristocrats, he preserved his awe of them. As a self-avowed snob, he considered himself the high priest of what remained of the old social aristocracy which had been all but obliterated by the rising horde of new millionaires spawned...
...Russians are a brave people with very bad table manners. . . . General MacArthur's Army didn't quit, isn't quitting, won't quit-and no son-of-a-bitch is going to label him a coward and go uncalled for it. ... We have been in awe of the Russians' fortitude in ordering the earth scorched as they fell back, and we frankly said so. But . . . Manila is not Philadelphia...