Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which his successor would be elected directly by the people (TIME, Sept. 21). Though De Gaulle's proposal would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard their President. Through endless anecdotes, his mordant wit and sovereign self-assurance have become as firmly lodged in the French imagination as Cyrano's nose...
...every fight the camps are full of scary stories about the mayhem inflicted on sparring partners. The journeymen pugs hired as sparring mates are not paid to make the star look bad−even if they could. Yet those in Liston's camp seem to stand in genuine awe of the 30-year-old giant who may yet prove to be one of the most powerful fighters in history. In training since the first week in May, he has trimmed his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 220 Ibs. of bulging muscle...
...Awe & Fear. As the countdown continued on the radio, the time dragged; a quarter-moon showed intermittently in the cloud-patched sky. At last the countdown dropped to seconds: ten, nine, eight . . . Finally, at exactly 11 p.m., the bomb exploded. The sky over Hawaii flared dazzling white, seemingly even brighter than noonday. The light turned pale lime green, then a delicate pink that darkened swiftly to a hideous meaty red. After seven minutes, the glow was gone, leaving the blue-black Pacific night. But when the moon next showed through the clouds, it was tinted an unnatural yellow...
Most of those who saw the massive fireworks display were stunned into awe or fear by its magnificence. Samoan natives insisted that the moon had burst, and a Bible-reading lady in New Zealand called a newspaper office to ask calmly if the end of the world had begun. Watchers on the beach at Hawaii gasped in surprise at the unexpected daylight, and the pilot of a Canadian Pacific airliner flying to Sydney turned his plane about to give his passengers a breathtaking view of the eerie sight. "Everybody has seen fireballs in pictures." said an amazed Hawaiian...
Professor Beadle's reaction of awe in the face of the evolutionary process befits a man whose contribution to science has shown that very creativeness. We may wonder, then, if such a conception as his admits of the "retired God" that was found implicit in it (by Professor Beadle himself?). For do we not see in the evolutionary process a creativeness of an exceedingly high order...