Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew more law, more about finance, farming and business than the President. Without Franklin Roosevelt's ability to sway the masses, he was nevertheless more effective, man to man, with Senators, Congressmen and just plain people. Earthy, heavily humorous, direct, he inspired admiration but neither idolatrous devotion nor awe. And he had one surpassing quality that Mr. Roosevelt did not have: he was not tolerant of incompetence. No one who was merely loyal worked in Wallace's Department of Agriculture...
Before 1850, a gifted child was regarded with "a mixture of admiration, awe and hopeful expectation." But in the latter 19th Century the idea spread that the "precocious" child was somehow abnormal, probably headed for failure, neuroticism or insanity. If a child was phenomenally good at one thing it was assumed that he lacked other faculties. Heavy-duty thinkers wrote treatises to prove that a child's mental ability should develop at the orthodox rate if he was to have a well-rounded maturity. These nonsensical ideas, says Dr. Terman, have abated somewhat but have by no means vanished...
Heretofore, the inquisitive layman has been forced to stand in awe outside the wooden fence, listening mystified to the dull roar of the great machine. Now, for the first time, he will be able to find out just what is going on inside by reading "Why Smash Atoms?" by Arthur K. Soloman, research associate in Physics and Chemistry, which will be published tomorrow by the Harvard University Press...
...they are certainly as good art as the work of more publicized painters, whose attempts have been periodically placed on the pages of such magazines as "Life," "Coronet," and "Esquire." Miss Mackay's use of color is perhaps a but obvious; here paintings are neither exciting nor awe-inspring, yet they contain within them signs of sincerity, keen observation, and the ability to assimilate styles of better artists without the sullying of her own individuality...
...confidence. Mitsumasa Yonai knew that he had in him the genes of command. Nearly six feet tall, weighing 188 pounds, with airplane shoulders and a tri-motor voice, big of hands and feet and manner, he had always dominated littler men. His nickname-The White Elephant-was one of awe, and had none of the Occidental connotations of that phrase. It referred to his size; his exceptionally fair and aristocratic complexion, accented in its whiteness by his hair, black and shiny as a phonograph record; and his appearance of strength and wisdom...