Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone who has not taken Rice Paddies (Soc. Sci. 111) Professor Fairbanks' terminology might be a little awe-inspiring; but his analysis of cultural and nationalistic strains in Chinese Communist ideology and politics adds a historical perspective that is vital for understanding Chinese policies...
With faulty hagiography but understandable awe, the chairman of one large competitor calls it "the greatest organization since the church was founded by St. Paul." Adds the more mundane chief of another rival: "It is the General Motors of the industry. I sometimes feel like Studebaker." The object of such admiration is Sears, Roebuck and Co. Although it ranks second to the A. & P. among all U.S. merchandisers, Sears is the best-managed and most profitable of the nation's retailers. And it never seems to stop growing. Next week, reporting on fiscal 1963, Sears will announce that...
...Walter Chrysler; yet he had a more profound effect on the development of the U.S. auto industry than either of them. No auto bears his name, though he made possible the variety of names and styles that mark today's auto industry. He is still spoken of with awe and respect in Detroit, where he performed one of the business miracles of the century: the transformation of a haphazard and inefficient collection of automakers into the world's largest and most profitable industrial enterprise...
...only stand in awe before the versatility of those boys...
...brooding manner, the great, obscene chuckles whose delight it was impossible not to share, all were touched with something superhuman, something demonic. He lived intensely, self-destructively even. Those who loved him wanted him to take things easier, to save himself, to bank the fires; but with sorrow and awe we see that giants were not meant to live that...