Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even though he has lost to a great extent his undergraduate awe of Harvard, Bate still feels a healthy respect for the University, and cannot quite reconcile himself to his position. For some years, he admits, he felt like Huckleberry Finn at the mansion of the Widow Douglas, afraid that anything he touched or tried would bring a reprimand from authority...
...with which I am connected. . . You gave to our laboratory the kind of publicity which is most welcome . . . but you did not mention the great accomplishments with which Los Alamos is starting its second decade of existence. The spirit on this island is a spirit of cooperation, modesty and awe in face of the forces of nature, which we are trying to explore for the defense of our country to the best of our ability...
...Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...
Inside the huge store, the crowd was so thick that the militia stood by to keep order. Peasants in tanned-sheepskin coats and felt boots, city matrons in mouton-collared coats stared in awe at yard upon gleaming yard of silks and satins produced by Soviet textile plants. In the 36 years of Communist rule, they had never seen anything like...
...gravel and concrete men listened with solemn attention, looking at one another and shaking their heads in silent awe. They gave Cole a standing ovation for about one minute; then they filed out slowly and thoughtfully...