Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dantono ’10 asked in disbelief. The battle-weary pair ignored the skepticism. Tan and DeSantis took their last triumphant bites at 3:07 p.m, and hugged each other affectionately. At a small table in the middle of airy Cabot dining hall, the two contestants sat in awe of the epic challenge they had just completed. And then, as abruptly as it started, it was over: Tan slowly walked to the shuttle, and DeSantis wandered up to her room to sleep off her twelve chickwiches...
...Capone,” each one differentiating his product as if he were selling candy bars. Moskos explains the sophistication of a street-level drug deal—from lookouts and moneymen to slingers and hired muscle—in a way that inspires some awe for such inner-city entrepreneurship. These stories reveal the conditions of Baltimore in a way that is no less useful than methodological research—if you choose to believe what the author claims to have lived through...
...Hospital, was my chauffeur and confidante. The rock star of baked goods, Mark Furstenberg, served as my bagel research paper advisor. Dr. Walter Willet, the most cited nutritionist in the world, and his equally illustrious contemporaries were my dinner companions. I was home yet tongue-tied with awe. After arguing for years with my hopelessly carnivorous friends that eating healthfully doesn’t mean sacrificing taste, I finally found myself in a roomful of people who were making their career out of just that philosophy. The Healthy Kitchens’ motto?...
...location. "I felt like I had just knocked one out of the park. I thought, You know what? This is the big turning point for me," he says. But when he went back to Los Angeles, it became "this huge anticlimactic thing that basically took on different shades of awe, wonder, acceptance, bitterness or disassociation for the next-what year is it?-17 years. There was this kind of lull, and I never really found any momentum to focus my creative energy after that, so pretty expectable things happened...
...during the crack epidemic changed hip-hop dramatically, leading to the rise of G-funk and East Coast-West Coast rivalries, and ending with hip-hop selling to mostly white audiences. It’s an important story to tell, and Reeves enriches it with humorous, shocking, and awe-inspiring stories about the lives of those who carried the newborn hip-hop baby through its development years and into the modern age.But the book’s strength in covering some of the largest hip-hop stars also proves a drawback. By choosing to focus upon such hip-hop icons...