Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountains go, Antarctica's Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the continent, but it is still lower than ten mountains in North America. For an accomplished alpinist, the hike to the summit would seem like a Sunday stroll -if only it weren't for a couple of complications...
When the Warren Report was first issued, only ten months after the assassination of President Kennedy, there were few who doubted its conclusions. The vast majority of Americans, and nearly every important newspaper in the country, applauded the report, gazed in awe at its very size, and considered the case closed...
...pool was last used as a set for Spartacus, and it required no added props. As laid out by Hearst's architect, Julia Morgan, it is surrounded by two Etruscan-style colonnades, backed by a Greco-Roman temple, and fronted by a marble Birth of Venus. Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense 16th century Italian carved-walnut ceiling and a 16th century French stone mantelpiece for which Hearst outbid even John D. Rockefeller. Another favorite is the 27-ft.-high refectory, a monastic dining hall, lined with cathedral choir stalls and hung...
...most performances, his visitors included Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of the French Premier, Academician François Mauriac, Track Star Michel Jazy, and Bernard Gavoty, Paris' leading music critic. The tributes covered as broad a range. Distance Runner Jazy, who knows something about breath control, remarked in awe that Becaud "must have lungs like Atlas." Mauriac groped for a flossier figure: "One thinks when listening to Becaud of a powerful motor turning at its maximum, and the most curious thing about this machine running full speed is that it is driven by a poet...
...Kentucky, have stopped to visit a commercial cave. For a fee, a guide takes you in over surfaced paths that wind around electrically-lit rock formations. You could get the impression that caving is much like that, but without the lights, crowds, or the admission charge--just wandering in awe through the crystalline depths of the earth...