Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard fans went crazy after the goal--the crowd was among the many who suffered a tentative awe of Clarkson through the early moments of the game--and parallel to their pick up in tempo, the icemen also stepped up a notch...
Luciano was as enthusiastic about the game as the game is about him. He stumbled into umpiring on a business trip to Florida, and the union was a delightfully perfect fit. He could never really shake his little kids' awe of the athletes around...
Nixon recalls that he invited me to kneel with him and that I did so. My own recollection is less clear on whether I actually knelt. In whatever posture, I was filled with a deep sense of awe. A passage from Aeschylus ran through my mind-as it happened, a favorite of one of Nixon's obsessions, Robert Kennedy...
...head to seduce, will be around to catch a tantalizing glimpse of this or that secondary sexual characteristic. Since Zadora is the principal backer's wife, and this is nothing if not a vanity production, poor Keach is required at these moments to go slack-jawed with awe and wonder. As her looks may most charitably be described as an acquired taste, his persuasiveness in these scenes cannot be praised too highly. This is acting! But one cannot help thinking that if Zadora did less wriggling, slinking and twitching, propriety-not to mention the audience's sobriety-might...
Others, especially his teammates on the squad he has captained for the past year, share his admiration which lends to border on awe. Ken Plunicki, one of a strong crop of players which McLaughlin recruited during Fleming's sophomore year, described the effect that the captain had on the team during the current, disappointing season: "When everybody gets down on themselves because they're thinking about whether the season is worth it, is it really worth it, because there is so much else to do, you look at Donald raising a family and going to school and playing basketball...