Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate vote on the antiballistic-missile program, an issue on which he staked his personal prestige. Two of the most antimilitary Democratic Senators, Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire, praise the Republican Secretary's toughness and intelligence. "Most important," says Proxmire, "is that he does not stand in awe of the military...
...capacity to inspire such awe, affection and loyalty suggests deep roots and firm beginnings. Yet Thomas Fleming's chronicle of West Point shows that the academy established in 1802 was "an uneasy compromise between young America's suspicion of a standing army and the nation's obvious need for soldiers skilled in the art and science...
Thin-skinned Las Vegans have almost religious awe for such entrepreneurs as Billionaire Hughes and Multimillionaire Kerkorian, a onetime used-plane salesman who now is the largest stockholder in Western Airlines. They are seen as saviors sent to rescue the town from its reputation as a haven for crooks. Nobody seems to know how much Mafia money is still invested in Vegas (estimates range from none at all, which is patently ridiculous, to upwards of $100 million), but Hughes and Kerkorian have indeed lent the town at least a patina of respectability. In Hughes' six casinos, for example, gaming...
...Timesmen Talese describes are not likely to be grateful to him. Sometimes he presents them in quasi-cari-cature. But for all his citified cynicism about personalities, Talese and his book remain oddly in awe of the "good gray lady." and some of his ripest overwriting is put to the service of its glorious past and present. This means that the New York Times emerges from Talese's chronicle-cum-novel with most of its mythology intact. A good reason why The Kingdom and the Power, like the newspaper itself, is best read with a selective...
...people within it, like Hofer, have found a life style of their own. It is a life style which rejects the values of middle class conservatism and prudishness as forcefully as do today's revolutionaries. It is a life style which looks with some awe and some reverence at the history of men and in its own way, affirms the existence of beauty and love...