Word: awe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Details. What is the secret of Lyndon's ascendancy? Unlike Franklin Roosevelt-and certainly unlike Barry Goldwater-he does not polarize public opinion. Rather, he unpolarizes it. People neither love him nor loathe him. They simply stand in awe of his considerable talents-and, sometimes, in fear of his relentlessness in using those talents...
...wonder if Macmillan was aware of the striking similarity between his words about Churchill [Aug. 7] and Edgar's words about King Lear. After the death of Lear, Edgar remarks with a kind of awe...
Bobby now shows signs of taking it all philosophically. "I must confess I stand in awe of you," he told a meeting of Democratic congressional candidates, who were aware that Lyndon had barred all Cabinet-level officials from the vice-presidential nomination. "You are not members of the Cabinet, and you don't meet regularly with the Cabinet, and therefore you are eligible for Vice President." After he got the word from the President, added Bobby, "I decided to send a little note to Cabinet members in general, saying, 'I'm sorry I took so many nice...
...municipal world gasped in awe and wonder at the mass decapitation 14 months ago, when the city of St. Petersburg, Fla. (pop. 200,000), lopped off every one of its 4,1 86 curbside parking meters. Letters poured in from cities as far away as Britain, asking about the feasibility of this unprecedented backtracking-the result of a determined campaign by Realtor Richard D. Tourtelot, who managed to convince St. Petersburg officials that the meters were the major factor in the blight that had fallen on the city's downtown area. Downtown doldrums are getting to be pandemic...
...language constantly points backward with malice to other poets' diction, to their barely credible recognition scenes based on flimsy evidence like scars, footprints and locks of hair, to their unquestioning awe of traditional elements of all kinds...