Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week, a big man in a wide-brimmed Panama hat got out of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac and pushed his way through the swinging back door of the eleven-story San Francisco office building that Westerners, half in awe and half in bitterness, used to call "The Capitol of California." As usual, Donald Joseph McKay Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific Co.. was hustling to get to work before 8 o'clock. Explained the top man on the world's most flourishing railroad: "It's an old railroad operating man's habit...
...College of Mining and Technology, where he got his degree last week. But he spent a summer helping lay water and gas lines in the Michigan backwoods, used to try to grow dwarf pines and spruces in his' college dorm room, and approaches his possible Tanganyika assignment with awe: "It could be the most important single thing that I'll do in my life...
...gantry's elevator and entered the Mercury capsule, which was named Freedom 7 (from Shepard's seventh place on the alphabetical list of trained astronauts). Reporters, TV crews, and crowds of technicians from McDonnell Aircraft Corp. (which made the capsule) watched the silvery apparition with awe and admiration. For the last time that morning, Shepard lay down on a contour couch...
That an amateur orchestra should tackle Mahler would seem to swell ambition into hybris evoke awe but wreak disaster. And for it to invite so great an artist as Maureen Forrester would seem to make conceivable only nemesis or utter triumph. But the gods were sleepy Friday night; the thunderbolt never came. Neither catastrophe nor undreamed success came to the HRO: feeling flickered in the music now and again, sometimes brilliantly, but never consistently...
...talk of potential military destruction. But Bob McNamara, his well-slicked hair carefully parted, his rimless glasses gleaming, approaches his job with a confidence that almost borders on irreverence, which is the way he conducted himself in his years at Ford. The size of the job does not awe him. "I hate to say this." he murmurs with a trace of shyness. "After all, I came from a compa ny of pretty good size. And when you get up to this size, much greater size doesn't mean very much...