Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Argentina, Juan Perón was held in awe and respect as long as he proved himself politically powerful and beloved by women; it was when he began picking on the Roman Catholic Church and chasing teen-age girls that the military became bold enough to throw him out. Brazil, with its mixed Portuguese and African origins, confines its machismo to its frontier lands and southern cattle ranges. But it, too, succumbed to the magnetism of a macho leader when Getúlio Vargas raised a cavalry of southern Gauchos and rode to power in 1930. All over Latin America...
...makes himself the best gymnast in the school, as well as the best swimmer, diver and the best student. The war is on. Mahlke resolves to win the Iron Cross, Germany's highest military honor. But no matter what he does he remains an outcast-sometimes inspiring awe, but never inspiring acceptance...
...think you we have kept the French in awe...
...riveting them, launching them sideways, and using thinner decks. In all, Kure has built 2,200,000 tons of shipping for Ludwig, including the 114,500-ton supertanker Universe Apollo. When the tanker market became swamped, Ludwig last year subleased the yard, but Japanese aides still hold in awe the thrusting man who, as one says, "knew every detail and kept our brains spinning...
...took the American genius for mass production and specialization to make the low-cost, high-profit pancake a paying proposition. The pancake men work as often with slide rules and time charts as they do with bowl and griddle, know their customers' tastes and habits with awe some accuracy. One chain has so automated pancake production that cooks set meters which measure out the precise amount of batter required for cakes of different diameters. The head cook periodically whips out a ruler, checks that the cakes are the right size. Explained one chain executive: "Why, if our 41-inch...