Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some students naturally prefer to travel beyond Cambridge's borders for college, other local graduates tend "to hold Harvard in awe," preventing many students from considering Harvard as a possible four-year home, said Jarvis, the university's chief liaison to Boston area schools...
...role of the stately Queen. The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama. Her initial entrance prompted enthusiastic applause from the house, and there was awe onstage as well. In the middle of the "Rose Adagio," Sherilyn Kennedy, who danced Aurora, curtsied with fitting grace and unusual reverence, presenting the past and forever queen of dance with four pink roses...
...came off the courts in awe of their ability," Co-Captain David Segal, the number five A team player said. "They're really an exceptional team. It's difficult for a team which draws its players from a college to compete with a team whose player pool is an entire nation...
...named for Purple, Director Steven Spielberg was glaringly omitted, after being nominated three times in the past. Why? Some of Hollywood's glittersnipes speculate that it is sheer jealousy over his relentless commercial successes. Said veteran Hollywood Producer Daniel Melnick: "It's as if the nominators expressed their awe for the Sistine Chapel while snubbing Michelangelo...
...Capitol Hill, Speaker O'Neill recessed the House and, shaking his head, could only mutter, "Terrible thing. Terrible thing." He issued a statement expressing his awe of the space pioneers: "We salute those who died performing exploits that people my age grew up reading about in comic books...