Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surtees, brilliant in his own right, could only watch in awe. At the finish, Clark was 10.4 sec. ahead. Face streaked with mud, he stood stiffly at attention for God Save the Queen, and then dived into a car to escape hordes of autograph hunters. "This postrace hullabaloo really kills me," he said. "My stomach gets all knotted...
Throughout, her voice enveloped the hall: awe-inspired, wild applause followed every song. "Why does she have to quit?" a disappointed summer school girl moaned after Judy's second encore. "She could sing like that for hours," said another...
...were often wrong," says Alexander Cairncross, the prime economic adviser to the British government, "but there was seldom enough statistical material to prove them so at once." Statistics that once took months to compile are now served up in days, or sometimes minutes, by computers. Economists still stand in awe of the modern maestro, Britain's late John Maynard Keynes, whose doctrines of central planning and high public spending made him the darling of the New Deal. Some statesmen have declared that the modern world needs a new Keynes. Though no single economist today commands so much power...
...lifelong though mostly distant affair, interrupted briefly, as Biographer von Salis dryly observes, by his marriage to Clara Westhof. In an age that is congesting toward total togetherness, when even a Wordsworth can only wander lonely as a crowd, the solitary figure of Rilke commands something somewhere between awe and irritation. He sought Weltinnenraum-literally, "inner-world-space," the landscape of the mind that can be seen only by introspection...
...until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood: "It's like white horses." Even Khrushchev took time out from his attacks on the Western imperialists and said in awe: "This river is alive." As fire works exploded all around, the Arab crowds shouted: "Allah akhbar [God is great...