Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled by a beautiful call girl." And he is not friendless. Far from it; he has only to appear in Wall Street to have his credit and identity restored. I returned to my office filled with awe. What dreams we Americans can dream ! Who has bums like our bums? MAX J. K. CLARK New York City...
...lore. At dinner or at tea-or during his daily rounds through the infirmary-he would try to draw his students out on every sort of topic-from the materials used in Syrian pottery to the virtues of the Confederate cause during the Civil War. "He seems," said one awe-struck student, "to know everything about everything...
Westerners, looking at the huge bloc which China, Russia and India make on a map, contemplating with awe the swarming myriads of Asian manpower, could not deny it. Khrushchev, before returning to Moscow last week, conveyed the measure of it with an old Chinese saying: "When the whole people sigh, there is a storm; when the whole people stamp their feet, there is an earthquake...
...Cushman, a leading authority in the field of civil rights, famed physicist Hans Bethe, and philosopher Max Black. Although many of these men may give the large introductory courses and try to make themselves accessible to students, the average student is likely to hold them too much in awe, especially in his early years, to approach them readily...
...such rhymes plenty of times: even his wizardry is hard put to improve on four basic rhymes with "love" in the English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved to chat so is still drinkin...