Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss Donald Nelson of the worthiness of his idea. Nelson said go ahead, and RFC Chairman Jesse Jones produced the Government cash. Kaiser picked Howard Hughes as his partner in the venture. Witness Merrill C. Meigs, Hearst executive and senior consultant in WPB's aviation division, recalled with awe: "Kaiser is one of the world's greatest salesmen, in a class with Diamond Jim Brady and Bill Sunday...
...speeches and religious services, thousands of non-Mormons will crowd the bunting-hung streets. They will stare at the multi-towered Mormon Temple, marvel at the acoustical wonders of that famed and enormous Quonset hut, the Mormon Tabernacle, where the Mormon choir thunders out hymns. But what will most awe them will be the spectacular manifestations of Mormon diligence and industry...
With them he got a pair of magic spectacles to decipher the symbols. One look by anyone else, Joseph said, would mean instant death. After months of speaking from behind a blanket while awe-stricken neighbors took down his words, Joseph Smith produced a 275,000-word document which he called The Book of Mormon. Mark Twain, the great debunker of his day, later described it as "chloroform in print...
Baldwin thinks that the Japanese have lost their awe of the Emperor, retain only respect and curiosity. He talked with Hirohito, found him "intelligent, quick and agreeable," but very much of a "man who had been managed. Hirohito always seemed to be looking for someone to give him a cue. To break the ice I brought candy for his kids. He got real folksy and asked me about my kids at home...
Linden was predominantly Protestant and officially dry, but the Massasoit House lay conveniently over the town line in wet Revere. Paul, who established a lifelong regard for alcohol in his teens, speaks with romantic awe of the Massasoit House crowd, which included his Uncle Reuben. They were kindly, lovable, generous, liberal, fair, colorful and manly...