Word: awe
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...those lighted matches winking and flickering. But during most of civilized history, crowds have been considered mindless, dangerous animals, easily manipulated by demagogues. I remember driving through northern Alabama in the middle of the night with George Wallace Jr. ("Little George"), who told me, in tones of fear and awe, how he had, as a child, watched his father, Governor George Wallace, inflame a very nasty audience in Michigan. "He set them on fire," Little George kept repeating, with lingering astonishment. "He just set them on fire...
...keeping with that theme, Disney has begun Zoog Disney--interactive television. Sweeney describes watching her own daughter multi-task while watching television with a discernible sense of awe...
...stand in awe of all of you because you have been my teachers," Brokaw said. "We are in awe of your modesty and your determination to be judged by a life lived well...
...Stand in awe of your friends' achievements...
Another dismally awe-inspiring legacy of our 20th century obsession with water development has been the gradual disappearance of southern Louisiana. When the first irrigated civilizations were appearing in contemporary Iraq and Pakistan about 5,000 years ago, the Gulf of Mexico was roughly where New Orleans now sits. The Gulf, like all the other seas, had been rising since the last Ice Age, but the Mississippi River dumped 18 billion truckloads of sediment at the Gulf's door in the time it took the seas to rise a foot. It was (and still is) one of the planet...