Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams tackle no more savagely than those of other top football schools, and the day is long past when he would yank a star quarterback out of a hospital bed and send him out to play. But just as in the old days, his players still regard him with awe that is tinged with fear. There is no physical intimidation, in the style of the deposed Woody Hayes of Ohio State and Frank Kush of Arizona State. "I don't remember ever seeing Bear hit a player," says Dietzel. "But I don't think you have...
...actor, who performed his World War II service making training films in Hollywood, possesses a respect for the military that borders on awe. Eisenhower, after a professional lifetime in uniform, took a more jaundiced view. He knew more about war and arms than his Defense Secretaries and Joint Chiefs ever did. He did not hesitate to contradict them. He resisted military spending. He believed in "nuclear sufficiency," not superiority; he knew that nuclear weapons had forever, unalterably, changed his old profession. Eisenhower was not inclined to rattle the saber too much. Ironically, it was the Democrats in 1960 who campaigned...
...rows of medals, let tears stream down their faces. Middle-aged housewives who had never known any other national leader put their arms tenderly around their children's shoulders and sobbed into handkerchiefs. Groups of schoolchildren, reared on his all-embracing national legend, waved small Yugoslav flags with awe in their eyes. At the edge of the crowd, a youth knelt on an open newspaper, clasped his hands and moved his lips in silent prayer. "He was somebody very close, like in my own family," said Nikola Margis, 68, a craftsman with a white mustache, who had waited...
...sure thing, though, that this particular angle on the scene--the chilled, ironic feeling of mockery and awe--did not exist outside the photograph. Neutral and straightforward as the picture appears at first glance, you could not come by the same perspective even if you were able to stand at that street, at that instant, and witness the actual event. The picture, like much of the work in the exhibit, illustrates the most basic, elusive and inexhaustible fact about photography--that even the most artless photographs are not so much records of reality as they are refinements and extensions...
...started to change in 1968, after the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. shocked him into a realization of the depth of social turmoil in the U.S. He won votes for an open-housing bill with a ringing oration that veteran colleagues still remember with awe...