Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chuck Reischel is a big, fast, tough right guard, who is in Group II and wants to be a political scientist. While Jack Fadden taped his hip, Reischel explained Machiavelli to an awed audience of junior Tom Choquette. Reischel had been looked on with awe all fall for his football playing as well as his academic status. His fellow linemen called him "the iron horse" since almost everybody else on the line had missed some kind of work because of injuries...
Americans, summoned by Churchill to discharge their "awe-inspiring accountability to the future," heeded and acted. Perhaps no other man on earth could have commanded such a response. In years to come, the U.S. unquestioningly supported NATO, the Marshall Plan, and a succession of international responsibilities that would have been inconceivable a decade earlier. Though often and unfairly characterized as a warmonger, Churchill on his return to power in 1951 saw that his warning had taken effect, and was convinced that the West could now bargain from strength with the Communist world. His hope of a realistic détente...
...Vietnam, Sidey quoted Johnson as having said, "I'm not going to have American boys fight Asian wars... Why should we fight, when one man can walk into Saigon and depose the government?" Sidey attributed the President's reluctance to extend the Asian war in part to his awe of Red China...
Kazantzakis is the Dostoevsky of the Mediterranean, and Zorba the Greek is his most popular work. Director Cacoyannis treats it with respect but not with awe. The big moments of the book are all in the film, but the fictional furbelows are trimmed, and some dazzling cinematic doodads added. The camera sees much that Kazantzakis didn't, and the movie is often funnier than the book-Kedrova's minx emeritus, she of the floor-length eyelashes, frequent chins and raucous reminiscences is, for instance, a major comic creation. Zorba, of course, is the heart and soul...
...Extra Million. Moursund's business acumen is held in awe, particularly by those who recall such feats as his 1958 sale of 631,000 acres on three ranches owned by the West-Pyle Cattle Co. for almost $3,000,000-a cool $1,000,000 more than the owners had expected. He did it by rounding up the biggest cattle buyers in the Southwest, carefully sorting the cattle by breed, size and quality, insisting on sealed bids for each...