Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That evening’s fierce air strikes, hinted at by Washington as likely to induce “shock and awe,” were the war’s most intense yet. Over a thousand bombs were dropped...
...look back and you’ll say, ‘Hey, I did this with these guys.’” And Brian Fallon and I stood in the stands off the first base line, listening with reverence and maybe a hint of awe, shielding our eyes from the sun as it beat down on the Church of Joe Walsh...
...one’s children a leg up in college admissions are just the beginning. But there are potential drawbacks associated with the Ivy seal of approval. The perfect example: the proverbial “H-Bomb” and its inevitable mixed reactions. Some treat Harvard grads with awe, others with revulsion. Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen J. Langer admits that hearing someone went to Harvard “can be intimidating,” and warns graduates to “use the word ‘Harvard’ responsibly...
...federal matching funds and swamp McCain in the primaries. This time, aides say, Bush will raise nearly twice that amount, and he won't be facing a G.O.P. challenger. That means he'll have tens of millions of dollars to spend next spring on television ads to shock and awe his Democratic opponent, who will have just emerged penniless from a bruising nomination battle. "Just watch," says a Bush adviser. "We'll have more money than...
...available limelight, from Vanity Fair and Paris Match to the pop-culture talk show Everybody's Talking About It. "BHL has learned the lessons of Dubya: pile it on from the first day," hissed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. "Hit the masses with shock and awe." Lévy claims he couldn't care less about his image, only the books. He defends French intellectuals for being right when governments were wrong: in the 1930s against fascism, in the 1950s against France's colonial presence in Algeria, in the 1970s against the Soviet Union...