Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edith Evans, who has played Lady Bracknell on the stage, is magnificently victorian. Gaudily-gowned and rouged, Dame Evans is an awe-inspiring matriarch who distrusts everything but the "solid quality" of money. Screeching and bellowing, she commands both the characters and the film with the delicacy of a moose...
...heirs themselves-Premier Georgy Malenkov, Lavrenty Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich-stood the first honor watch at the bier. Then the huge doors were thrown open. For 60 hours, the men, women & children of Moscow marched in to gaze, in awe, in curiosity, or in grief, at the powerful little man so few had seen in life...
...their first sight of Mildred Didrikson Zaharias on the golf course, spectators often react like sideshow gawkers; they are first filled with awe, then with doubt, then with wonder. Obviously, they feel, no woman should be able to hit a golf ball so far (her longest drive: 315 yards...
...powerful yet released by the AEC, got its punch by soaking up neutrons for nearly eight months in the nuclear reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island. It traveled across the country in a two-ton lead container. Stanford research-men still look at their dangerous captive with some awe, but they intend to put it to practical work, such as sterilizing delicate substances (e.g., penicillin) that are damaged when sterilized by heat...
...days, they say, a Texan once wandered into the Met, and remarked with uneasy awe: "Doggone, it sure would hold a lot of hay." Whatever the Texan might feel now about Francis Taylor's big attic, he would probably have to admit that what it holds...