Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foreman was crawling in and out of his truck, opening and closing gates, feeding animals, trying to convince a colt that if he did not wean himself soon his mother would waste away, pausing to brag about his bass pond, saying he would never shoot deer because he is awed by them--his word, awe--and gently pulling back the branches of budding forsythia to clear the trail for a companion, who felt small...
...frescoes in the rarely seen Pauline Chapel, the Pope met briefly with Today Hosts Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel, both of whom asked the Pontiff to bless their children. Also present was Pauley's usually camera-shy husband, Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who afterward remarked, with a trace of awe in his voice, "He was not like somebody working the crowd at all. He really greeted each one of us individually...
...sparring partner and studied as a man until Holmes' embarrassing skills & necessitated his firing. "I always sat myself in the back," he says, "and just watched. Today's fighters don't discipline, they don't dedicate. But worst of all, they don't sit themselves in the back." His awe for Ali was such that the first time Muhammad blackened his eye in the gym, Holmes declined treatment until he could get to a photographer. "I was so happy with that black eye," he recalls. If it has occurred to Holmes that in outshining him and saying so, Ali issued...
Only the newest players behold him with open awe. "The first time I stood on the ice beside Marcel Dionne, I was 18. I can remember exactly how excited I was. I've seen that same look in younger eyes." For perspective, he has several devices, but his most effective helper is the small, bespectacled clubhouse boy, Joey Moss, who has Down's syndrome. "I grew up around it," Gretzky says. "My dad's sister is mentally retarded. I love Joey, I love to shake his hand...
...1920s, Hardy began collecting written accounts of extraordinary religious experiences (inexplicable feelings of awe, answered prayers, visions, healings and out-of-body projections). In 1969, with the aid of modest donations and proceeds from his own speeches, he became the founding director of the Religious Experience Research Unit at Manchester College, Oxford...