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...average should equal roughly his height, is an astonishing 7 ft. 4 in. He is the only male swimmer since Mark Spitz to hold world records in two strokes at the same time, and the combination of his success and his unusual architecture has swimming experts muttering in awe. His close-set eyes and long, beaked nose give him an expression of alert irritability. He is said to be arrogant, but before his first race a private kindness showed a different side of his nature...
Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia from 1533 to 1584, was not, strictly speaking, terrible. That cognomen came from a mistranslation of the Russian word grozny, which means something closer to "awe inspiring." Yet in just about every other sense, Ivan was ghastly enough...
...university, DiBiaggio struggles under a complex and demanding set of "open door" requirements that require him to discuss all business with the governing boards in public--even the awarding of honorary degrees. "I am in awe of the office," he nonetheless said, adding, "you can't appreciate it until you live through...
...amount of cannibalization of real estate, and ladies who ran boarding houses for students were being done out of their livelihood. This did not sit very well with the city fathers. The relationship between "town" and "gown," always edgy, took a distinct turn for the worse. Some of the awe and respect with which the University had been viewed in earlier days by the rest of Cambridge had been eroded in the last decade or so, and Councillor Toomey, at a meeting of the City Council, even called for the sundering of relations between the City of Cambridge and Harvard...
...were next in line for the presidency. "She is extremely competent," says Louisiana's Gillis Long, chairman of the House Democratic caucus. "She's a good word." And politician how in does the best Ferraro sense feel of about the the prospect? "I'm in awe," says Ferraro...