Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages by now (their periodic patrols usually include medics, who treat the villagers), the children always look in awe and delight at the foreign giants, occasionally sneaking up to touch with wonder a hairy...
...sponsored by the New York Times, the race started normally enough. "I cranked and the engine started," recalled George last week with a touch of awe. "We sped down Broadway to Times Square and into the biggest crowd of people I ever saw." Exactly 41 days, eight hours and 15 minutes later, Schuster's 60-h.p. Thomas Flyer arrived in San Francisco, thus ending the easiest part of the trip. Five foreign cars-from a French De Dion to an Italian Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then...
Fairgoers who stand in awe before El Greco's gently swashbuckling Saint Bartholomew or his voluptuously spiritual Holy Family have double reason to be grateful. The government has announced that this is the last time such masterpieces will be sent out of the country. But when Spain's paintings return home next October after the closing of HemisFair, Texans will not be totally bereft. They can feast their eyes at the Virginia Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where a group of Spanish paintings is being built up by Algur Hurtle Meadows, the Dallas oil millionaire...
THEY pronounce his boyish name with fear and derision or else with adoration and awe. To many enemies, he is more his father's son than his brother's brother. Indeed, it was old Joe himself who observed, "He hates just like I do." By this reckoning, Robert Kennedy is the spoiled dynast, reclaiming the White House as a legacy from the man he regards as a usurper. Yet to many who have worked closely with him, Bobby is like Jack, pragmatic and perceptive, tempered by history. Says Urbanologist Pat Moynihan: "Much has been given him and taken from...
...many places the report latches on to the quickness of Harvard's growth, revealing with a certain awe that the number of tenured appointments has risen by 50 per cent since 1951 and questioning what governs the pattern of this growth. The Committee says that the direction of future expansion is "central to the future strength to the Faculty," but does not presume to say directly how future appointments ought to be distributed...