Word: awe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balance," he says, and balance he's got. Notre Dame's massive defensive line weighs in at 240 Ibs. per man and looks even bigger-mostly because of Tackle Kevin Hardy, a ferocious 270-Ib. junior. Two weeks ago, against North Carolina, Hardy put on an awe-inspiring show of strength: charging right over the lighter Tar Heel linemen, he personally made half a dozen tackles, recovered a fumble, blocked four North Carolina passes and deflected a fifth into the hands of a Notre Dame linebacker...
...gold-filtered Eden, where Adam (Michael Parks) takes shape in the sod, starts poking around Paradise eying Eve (Ulla Bergryd) and her apple while an athletic camera plays now-you-see-it, oh-you-don't with their anatomy. Such defoliated innocence fills an audience with awe, not for the miracle of mankind but for the skill of split-second cutting...
...Feria, Texas, seem different from any of the others-or from their countless cousins that thrive in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But to thousands of Mexican-Americans in the area, one of Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local Mexican-Americans soon saw religious significance in the "crying tree"; they began dropping by to touch...
...Nationalists. Now a division commander, Lin made his debut against the Japanese the high point of his military career: at dawn on Sept. 25, 1937, Lin's men ambushed the Japanese Itagaki Division in the shadow of the Great Wall. The defeat is still recalled with awe in the bars of the Ginza, where former Japanese officers recognize Lin as a master tactician...
...Merrill Lynch's headquarters on Pine Street (two blocks from Wall) contain $13 billion in negotiable securities. In all its transactions last year, the big brokerage house grossed $228 million for a net profit of $30.8 million. More than ever, it fits the name that Wall Streeters in awe and envy bestowed long ago: "The Thundering Herd...