Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says he enjoys browsers who like the sort of things that he carries and wishes more people would wander upstairs and just leaf through prints and talk. He finds the students very interested in art, but he wishes that they wouldn't let the awe of art galleries keep them from coming in and perhaps buying something small that they might like rather than cheap prints. "There's nothing like an original...
While trucking-industry management generally likes Hoffa and looks upon him with some awe, bigger fish tend to fear him. At the biggest dinner of its kind ever held in Detroit, more than 2,600 well-wishers last year paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list...
...former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge William Clark, came away somewhat mollified after the first day, though Judge Clark had denounced the Japanese judge for "insolence" in not finding space for him in the crowded courtroom. "I was terribly impressed with that Japanese court," said Owsley. "I stood in awe . . . I was amazed at the fairness of Judge Kawachi...
...Kent, a high-Episcopal prep school in Connecticut, Cozzens found that if he could not command his schoolmates' respect as an athlete, he could awe them in other ways: "I was the boy intellectual who didn't believe in God, scorned healthy exercise, and subscribed to the New Republic. But Kent marked me for life. If there's hard work to be done and I get out of it, I feel extremely guilty. That's the attitude Father Sill inculcated in us." The late Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, founder and headmaster of Kent, was a thunderous...
From the moment it unveils its mock-hero, Rock Hunter (Tony Randall), ensconced side-screen as a one-man band in a spoof of the awe-struck music that always accompanies the searchlights introducing a Fox movie, Success is obviously in merry contempt of all that is sacred. The ensuing titles compete hopelessly with a series of TV commercials, totally irrelevant, but so distractingly zany that nobody will pay the least attention to the screen credits. Success roars onward, steadily more outrageous, shamelessly promoting forthcoming Fox movies (Peyton Place, Kiss Them for Me) and donating scads of free ad space...