Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large part of the world-in fact, said Teacher, the sun never set on it. Tatum could not understand that, so the teacher got a globe and patiently explained the celestial facts. In a larger sense, Tatum never understood; he still wonders with a mixture of curiosity and awe how the British managed to keep control of so much land, so many people...
...read with considerable interest and not a little awe your Yale supplement. Particularly intriguing was the load article, entitled "Yale: For God, For Country, and Success". I was impressed and gratified to hear that I head an organization which "wields terrific influence" and that I myself am held "in near veneration" by the campus at large. An enviable position!--and one, frankly, of which I had not been aware. Because your writers reported it, however, I presume it must be so. I will not hesitate to inform the more doubting Thomases in the Ell midst of this happy fact...
Yale's wheels earn more than the awe of their fellows; there are three kinds of institutions on the Eli campus that honor their achievements with coveted memberships. Where Harvard has only Phi Beta Kappa, Yale also boasts of nine fraternities, two honor societies, and six fabled secret societies...
John stands in obvious awe of his older brother, yet likes to needle him gently for his plodding, painstaking ways. "Remember the watermelons, George?" he likes to say. John goes on to explain: "George came in one morning and wanted to see our produce people. He said our prices were out of line on watermelons. He'd stopped off at the Washington Market on his way in and saw some melons cheaper than ours. The produce man answered, 'Those melons are smaller.' 'No, they're not,' said George, 'I measured them...
...communication and the swamp of self-expression squats a swarm of modern poets, patting mud-pies into shape for the admiration of themselves and their playmates. The much larger crowd of regular guys in the swimming hole jeer at these patty-cakers as sissies, but stand a little in awe of them too, seeing how cleverly they mold their incomprehensible mud images...