Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...m.p.h., out on the 59th lap when his Brawner-Ford threw a wheel on the No. 3 turn; Dan Gurney, the second fastest qualifier (at 167.2 m.p.h.), black-flagged on the 161st lap with a blown cylinder in his American Eagle. And they had watched, first with awe, then with mounting ennui, as Parnelli Jones, in his turbine-powered STP Special, made it look too easy-coasting almost soundlessly around the track, smashing record after record, effortlessly outdistancing everyone, until with only three laps to go he had opened up nearly a full lap lead...
...MATERIALISM. "For me, there is a great longing to reach beyond the Formica and gleaming stainless steel and to be able to touch other human beings. I want to be able to share with others the awe of a redwood tree and its inviolability in comparison to a high way; I want to do so without being considered a 'nut.' I want to be free from the compulsion to possess things and people, and to know that others are similarly free. I want to be able to love life enough to value it over all else...
...select new members to their august company. Elihu, Scroll & Key, and the other four recognized societies chose more than 100 third-year men. Like Dink, Olympic Swimming Champion Don Schollander, 20, who brought back four gold medals from Tokyo in 1964, was tapped for Skull & Bones. In grateful awe, he accepted...
...About all the world knew was that he was married to a high school principal, never discussed what he was doing during the eleven hours and more a day that he spent in his studio. One of the few painters who gained admission to his inner sanctum reported with awe, "There isn't a goddam brush in the place." Nonetheless, under his painting name of Morris Louis, Bernstein gained a reputation in Manhattan art circles. Since his death from lung cancer in 1962 at the age of 49, his repute has grown to major proportions...
Fightin'est Footballer. Abrams' assignment engendered a mixture of awe and anticipation among military and civilian officials in Saigon. The son of a railroad hand, he was born in Springfield, Mass. At West Point, where he was known as the "fightin'est man" on the football squad, he claims that his only distinction was an aversion to discipline. After cavalry training at Fort Bliss, Texas, Abrams joined the 4th Armored Division at its formation in 1941, stayed with it through...