Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began entertaining foreign visitors at informal songfests, usually in duet with his petite, chestnut-haired wife. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Sylvia Symington has worked as a volunteer music teacher to Washington slum children, in 1960 organized a group of women to help wives of African diplomats overcome their awe of bustling Washington. Proficient in French, she even accompanied her wards to the dentist's office to relay such instructions as "Ouvrez la bouche, s'il vous plait...
...ever-skeptical cast of mind. Twain knew that the lies people tell themselves are much funnier than the lies they tell others. He had a bird dog's nose for humbug, and he found it everywhere-in religion, patriotism, politics, ethnic pride and national vanity. With baffled awe and unquenchable laughter, he looked upon man as the most arrogant of the apes and found him passing strange: "Man is the only animal who's got the true religion-several of 'em." Twain wonders aloud if mankind would not have been better off if Noah had missed...
While most of the troops in Viet Nam may be indifferent to churchgoing, they nonetheless have a high respect for the churchmen who share the dangers of War with a quiet heroism that wins affection and awe rather than medals. One such chaplain is Lutheran Hugh Lecky, 34, a "helipadre" who last summer rode a chopper to Ba Gia, a remote outpost that was under Viet Cong attack. With a chaplain's kit on his left hip and a medical corpsman's bag on his right, Lecky ministered to a dying helicopter pilot, then turned to helping others...
...sittings were punctuated by occasional visits from members of the Westmoreland family. At one time, ten-year-old Kit charged into the garden, spotted the bust in progress and gasped: "Gee, it's President Lincoln!" A second look straightened her out, but the awe was gone. "Oh," she sighed, "it's only Dad." The general roared with laughter. From Katherine, 17, came quite a different reaction. She returned to Honolulu for Christmas vacation proud of the fact that TIME had published a letter from a reader suggesting her father as Man of the Year. When...
Brown opened its season with an awe-inspiring 8 to 3 rout of Northeastern in Boston. And that night, Husky goalie Gary Thornton was playing nowhere near the 42-save level he performed at when Harvard beat Northeastern...