Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in a row at different positions. He also led Fenwick to the finals of the Chicago championship. Fenwick lost, but Johnny will never forget the crowd that turned out for the game. "There were 67,000 people there that day," says Johnny with a mixture of pride and awe...
...Street, Northeast Harbor. Mr. Flood is too much a product of this world to be rewarding to critics intent on the game of pinning the tale on other authors. Except for a brief glimpse of the Tycoon in his Wall Street lair, there is no trace of Fitzgerald's awe in the book's pictures of the twenties. Nor does Mr. Flood have any of Marquand Sr.'s quiet grudge or Marquand Jr.'s compulsion to renounce loudly the world of wealth and position. Mr. Flood's even perspective, whether it be laid to ignorance of any other setting...
...Blood. On their great rolling ranches where the big game roams, Kenya's white settlers have built 30-ft.-tall watchtowers with big searchlights to overlook their cattle camps and the Negro labor lines, which are enclosed with barbed wire. In their teeming reserves, terrified Kikuyu watch in awe while the Mau Mau drill in the open, black foreheads glistening with crosses painted in blood, hoarsely chanting to the gods: "Grant us power to drive out all whites...
...with Monopolies. To Mexicans' amazement, awe and admiration, Ruiz Cortines sailed into the "monopolists," i.e., Alemán pals who got strangleholds on many business activities. In March he struck hard to smash the monopoly of Mexico City oil distribution, held by pistol-packing Multimillionaire Jorge Pas-quel of Mexican-baseball-league fame. Then, in succession, he expertly dethroned Transport King Antonio Díaz Lombardo, who had made $40 million as boss of the bus lines and head of Alemán's lucrative Social Security Department, and loosened the grip of Multimillionaire Aaron Saenz on Mexico...
...strength lies in his limitations. Raised on a Norman farm, he has never quite got over the awe and delight with which the country boy sees the big city for the first time, although Paris is now home to him. Léger's bias for machine-tooled design does not come from study, experiment or theory; it was set during the only period in his adult life when he did no painting, while he was a stretcher-bearer in an engineer corps during World War I. "There," he recalls, "in the midst of machines, I felt my taste...