Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tiresome rhetoric and a lot of money too, and anoint by acclamation another of the Royal Family Kennedy as King-er, President? With Camelot II and its fun and games established in the White House we will see how well charisma can run this country. While standing in awe of the new White House occupants, we will forget our troubles of inflation, unemployment, energy shortage and high medical costs...
...student said afterwards--with more than a touch of awe in her voice--that "he sounded just like a philosophy book...
...international prevention of this crime. As Allen Barth noted in 1948, this concrete stance against evil was necessary because the Holocaust was an event that "the human mind finds it difficult to remember, as it found it difficult to grasp." The resolution and convention were supposed to overcome this awe-inspired inertia by giving all nations "the legal right to intervene in any country where genocide is committed...
France--its tolerance, shallowness, luxury--seduces and shocks Rosa. She gazes at the flamboyant prostitutes with mingled horror and awe of the country girl whisked to the big city. But only in France, away from the inbred defences against vulnerability, can she fall in love, giggle like the young girl she never was, laugh and cry unselfconsciously...
McCurdy cited inexperience and the long-standing Providence reputation. "We were too much in awe of them and deferred to them too easily. We ran relatively fast, but out of the race," he said...