Word: awe
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TIME: How did you come up with such a theory and what turned it into a book? Naomi Klein: I went to Iraq a year into the occupation and was researching the intersection between the shock and awe invasion and how it was supposed to have laid the psychological groundwork for [Bush's Iraq envoy]Paul Bremer's extreme country makeover that first summer. And what I was looking at, the tail end of Bremer's stay, was how shock therapy had backfired in Iraq - and by shock therapy I'm referring to the economic policies that were really seen...
...familiar with all of the training and preparations we went through, because that is what resulted in the feelings we had. We had to do everything we humanly could to guarantee success. It was a time of reflecting on the bigger meaning of things and being in awe of the visual situation and experience. There was a sense that our souls were linked with the entire world...
...wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran's nuclear facilities. An awe and shock campaign, lite, if you will. But frankly they're guessing; after Iraq the White House trusts no one, especially the bureaucracy...
...have an awe-inspiring poster collection? An outrageous mess? Or an ingenious piece of interior design? We want to see what made your dorm room the coolest one on campus. In the coming weeks Time.com will publish the best photos of college and high school dorms that we receive...
When Kissinger dropped the line in his speech about his fifty-plus visits to China, the crowd issued a murmur of awe, as if to say, "what commitment to our country!" And yet, as the audience should have known, most of these visits were just business; Kissinger Associates, the firm he founded after leaving office, has helped a long list of multinationals enter China. Anthony J. F. O'Reilly, the ex-head of Heinz, a top baby food seller here, explained how Kissinger is especially valued in countries "where the principal players and the dynamics among the principal players...