Word: awe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordan's trees. He is a graduate of Beirut's American University, fought as a British army captain during the war, later served for a spell in the Syrian army, returned to Jordan to become a civil servant. In the tax department. Wasfi Tal is remembered with awe for trying to make rich Jordanians pay their taxes. In the last ten years he has served, intermittently, as a Jordanian diplomat all over the Middle East, and adversaries loudly claim that he fomented anti-government plots in Syria. Lebanon and Iraq...
...post-Hitler German youth, Jews are almost as exotic as Javanese. Karl Marx,* editor of the Jewish weekly Allgemeine Wochenzeitung (circ. 48,000), reports that students swarm to him on his lecture tours, tell him in awe: "You are the first Jewish person we have ever met." In sharing the Germany of this new generation, some of Germany's Jews regard themselves as a reminder to Christians of the sins of the past, and as a continuing litmus paper for testing the country's democratic intentions. "There has not yet been any test of Germany's democracy...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, takes a large theme, the relationship of God and Man, and treats it with more humor than awe, but the performances of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell are full of fire and brimstone...
Apocryphal as it is, the story is a fair indication of the awe commanded in U.S. and European financial circles by mustachioed Hermann J. Abs, 60, the suave chief executive of West Germany's Deutsche Bank. Unhampered by the kind of legislation that restricts the scope of U.S. banks. West German banks combine the functions exercised in the U.S. by investment banking houses, commercial banks and savings banks, are also free to operate mutual funds and act as brokers. As a result, German bankers wield far more power than their U.S. counterparts. And as boss of his nation...
...Though most factories are badly run, all are not, and despite fatigue there is a slowly growing competence among skilled laborers. The Communists have even found a sunny side to the commune experience. Explained a Red official: "It wasn't production, it was education. Our people were in awe of technological processes. Now they have learned not to be afraid of 'technique.' It has lost its mystery. People who have actually poured their own steel and made things with it feel that they can do anything...