Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of existence ... It is very well to speak of human rights, but may it not be that these rights have of late been disturbed or disregarded precisely because man-modern man, clever man, proud man, sensuous man, self-sufficient man-has ceased to stand in fear and awe before that which is above...
...spirit of awe and fright that I rise to make a few remarks," said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, and grimly tackled the $61 billion defense appropriation. Since the bill would "turn over one-fifth of our national economy to the military," he thought it deserved a thorough scrutiny on the Senate floor...
Promptly at 2 p.m., Fred Ruble of Denver began a soaring demonstration in his sail plane and drew gasps of delight and awe. Just after he landed, the crowd heard the snarl of a plane coming in fast and low. It was 1st Lieut. Norman L. Jones of Denver, an experienced Air Force pilot, arriving in a low-wing monoplane. He was late. All pilots had been instructed to report by 2 for final briefing on safety. He zoomed the plane over the field at a 45° angle, just 200 feet off the ground, trailing smoke from the skywriting...
...filthy clothes, he had witnessed the Germans' triumphal entry into Paris, carefully studied the layout of a strategic airfield, and spent at least one comfortable night cheekily sleeping in the bed of an absent German general. Like most men who escaped through Occupied France, he speaks almost with awe of the peasants and plain folk who unhesitatingly risked their lives to help...
...Pentagon, now as familiar an address around the world as Whitehall, 10 Downing Street or the Quai d'Orsay, is a vast concrete and limestone materialization of the military mind. Like the military mind, it inspires awe, often admiration, sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower...