Word: awe
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...find a nicer man," says one Boston lawyer. "But his sweeping decisions tend to be insensitive." Others regard his iron will with something approaching awe. In one unsolicited endorsement last summer, Red Sox Pitcher Bill Lee described Garrity as "the only man in this town with any guts...
...world she encounters has a meaning only insofar as it has been infused with the life of Dostoevsky's art. As a young girl she had read his novels cloistered in the bushes outside her parents' home until they were snatched away by her older sister. She is in awe of the eminent writer, and at first he is equally uncomfortable in front of her. He must complete The Gambler in order to pay off debts left him by the death of his brother, and he has decided to dictate the novel rather than writing it himself. For two days...
Defense was the name of the game in the first half of the pivotal contest. K-House defensive coordinator Mike Bruich's crew kept their shut out string intact. Although Eliot House declined to roll over in awe of the highly touted Kirkland offensive crunchers...
...recent morning, dumped her suitcases on the floor, answered a number of telephone calls (sometimes two at once), ordered a glass of Fernet Branca. Then she turned to TIME'S Jordan Bonfante and submitted herself to what many prominent political leaders already know to their sorrow and awe as a Fallaci-style interview...
...that's what we thought. There was a general consensus as to who had and who hadn't: you could tell. And if one of our group had crossed the line, I think a wave of confused emotions would have swept us all--a mixture of jealousy, awe and alienation. We were saving ourselves, sub-consciously, not for marriage but for college...