Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apes are bewildered, we are in awe of the wild innocence of their world. Was this how the wandering Asians felt more than 10,000 years ago when they crossed to Alaska and marched southward through the Americas, going where no man had ever gone? On today's fully occupied planet, there are few places left where indigenous peoples do not hunt and trap or where loggers and mining companies have not sent in teams of surveyors. The great forests east of the Ndoki River may be the earth's last Eden...
Neil L. Rudenstine has just completed his first year as president of the University. Undergraduates' traditional attitude toward a Harvard president is awe tempered with disdain. But when Rudenstine arrived on campus last year, he quickly emerged as a cult hero. At his lavish inauguration ceremony, admiring first-years ex-pressed their approval with signs reading, "We love you, Neil...
...Class of '67 stands in awe of the Class of '96," Blodget says. He says he wonders whether the graduates of his class could be accepted under the College's new standards...
...experience the awe-inspiring spectacleof live dog-racing. Come on, most of Wonderland'sclientele already watches the races on closed-circuit TV. There just isn't that much toexperience. As Vader wrote, "there are no manesand tail blowing, no bright silks, no sweat nobloodlines going back centuries, no Old Kentuckyhome," Wonderland runs ads featuring abasset houndnamed Buck-O with a rocket strapped to his backbeneath the legend, "The Basic Idea BehindGreyhound Racing." They're supposed to betongue-in-cheek. But that is the basic idea behindgreyhound racing. It's too damn fast. by the timeyou've figured out which...
Then we understand their awe. They are enchanted by our toys...