Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of Chicago's 11,200 cops must be honest, but cynical Chicagoans are convinced that the blue-coated arm of the law leads directly to an outstretched hand. One public administration expert studied the Chicago cops' political "clout" and time-perfected "take" systems, reported with scholarly awe that only one procedure would clean up the department: fire all hands, start over. Mob murders go unsolved as in Capone's reign, and petty bribery of traffic cops is the accepted procedure (Comedian Mort Sahl describes Chicago's Outer Drive as "the last outpost of collective bargaining...
...desk to every department. Sensing the news possibilities in some current local development, Kirchhofer hands out the assignment. "I can't put my hands on the fish," he says, "but the smell is there." By two o'clock, with the help of 190 respectful and sometimes awe-struck editorial staffers, Editor Kirchhofer has produced an other issue of the newspaper that is as much a part of Buffalo as its 400,000 city-owned trees...
Last week, the university announced with awe, Stillings came through again. This time the scholarship fund was slightly bigger-$228,000, the largest gift ever received from a New Hampshire alumnus...
...drum corps play his favorites: Dixie, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and The Yellow Rose of Texas. Said U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough: "He was the last warrior of a lost cause, the sole remaining soldier of a whole civilization. The combatants are all gone now, but we stand in awe of the bravery of both sides...