Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Shercliff, the producer, started the evening with an apology for not being Sir Rupert himself. This was a bad beginning. Everyone feels awe-struck by the achievements of that great man, but most expressions of humility are more justified than they were last night...
What violence these would do no one knew, but so many airplanes had met disaster far below sonic speed that the "sonic wall" had earned a fearful reputation. Designers and pilots spoke of it with awe. It was widely believed that when an airplane reached the speed of sound, it would disintegrate...
Pale and shaken, 51-year-old Sam Atkins backed away from himself with a feeling somewhere between disbelief and awe. By a single, splendid cerebration he had been lifted out of the ruck into the status of a television curiosity. In his humble Manhattan saloon, Sam had decided to cut the price of beer (the 7-oz. glass) from a dime to a nickel...
Last Friday and Saturday, as a warmup for the Bach Mass, the Glee Club and Choral Society joined forces with Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Symphony in a powerful and awe-inspiring performance of Mahler's Symphony in C minor...
...more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons, watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...