Word: awe
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...started to change in 1968, after the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. shocked him into a realization of the depth of social turmoil in the U.S. He won votes for an open-housing bill with a ringing oration that veteran colleagues still remember with awe...
...McGaw made a serious mistake when she originally identified the defendent. The arresting officer was formal as to Ms. McGaw's certitude about Mr. Ezera: why doubt his word any more than Mr. Ezera's? But in the "courtroom parody" the error was corrected. The plaintiff, for motives unspecified (awe? fear? doubt?), withdrew her identification. Judge Grabau, although white, displayed the same rigor as Judge Elam: he summoned counsel to the bench, pronounced Mr. Ezera innocent, and thereby expunged the arrest from his record. Your reporter describes this as "the end of the play" but the protagonist still insists that...
...universe." Basil Mitchell, a philosopher of religion at Oxford, advocates a "many-stranded rope of reason" like that employed by historians or scientists to develop the best explanation of evidence. Among his strands: individuals' experience of a mysterious "other" outside nature, the simple faith of believers and "cosmic awe" in encountering unusually saintly persons...
...They'd awe me with stretches of playoff-caliber play, like the first period against B.C. at the Beanpot, or the second period at Dartmouth. And then they'd sneer, and throw me an impotent power-play or lackluster loss to Colgate crushing my hopes and expectations like a slap in the face on a first date...
...winning the election as well as the Republican nomination. A Washington attorney, Sears, 39, tried to broaden Reagan's appeal, and the candidate appeared to go along. Reagan admitted that he was troubled by his image in the East as a "Neanderthal reactionary." He almost seemed in awe of his $65,000-a-year subordinate as he listened deferentially to Sears' monologues on issues and tactics. Often when Reagan arrived at a meeting of aides, he asked: "Where's John? There are some things I want to check with...