Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there is something sinister and insidious lurking beneath Uncle Sam’s contented conservative front. It is the same unsettling force belying the pleasant satisfaction of America’s ever sprawling suburbs. The commitment to justice for the dispossessed—outside of G.O.P. focus groups awe-struck by George—is as absent as black faces in the Senate...
...Marshall Field's department store in the suburban Chicago Woodfield Mall, salesman Jim Heneghan, 17, finds that demonstrating the Dockers technology for customers often helps close a sale. "They're in awe," he says. "Mostly it's the wives--they're tired of getting the stains out of the pants...
...defense of the No. 1 national ranking begins this weekend for the Harvard women’s hockey team. While Harvard’s next two opponents—Northeastern and No. 7 Providence—are not overwhelmed with awe, they do have great respect for the Crimson’s abilities...
...with 7:45 remaining in the first half, the ground began to shake. The field was clearing after Harvard’s second score when a nozzle burrowed its way out of the turf near midfield and began to inflate a large black balloon. The crowd stood in quiet awe while both teams retreated wearily from the minivan-sized globe...
...though the ways in which Sheeler had in mind the broken crockery of Cubism or the elastic women of Matisse are pretty plain. These are also loving pictures, so long as you keep in mind how often one brings to a lover's interesting body the problems of estrangement, awe, fear of death, utmost tenderness and ruthless curiosity--all things he brought to Katharine's. Are they also beautiful? Absolutely...