Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irony is another staple in the dining room. Superstars like Austrian Downhill Winner Franz Klammer get asked for autographs by other athletes, and the Russian hockey players, who are years older than most of the competitors, are looked on with awe. For the rest, the comfort of familiar faces appears to mean more than opportunities for international fellowship. The Swedes, in their yellow and blue, do not blend at the same table with the Rumanians in red. Nor do Americans eat with Russians. In fact, U.S. figure skaters do not sit with the American bobsledders; American skiers do not even...
...with an artificial waterfall and a man-made lake. Piranesi's Characters explore the ruins as they would a natural wonder, they admire them and scurry on top of them as they would a huge tree, or a rock. The small figure looking up at Trajan's Column in awe, or those dancing around the almost-buried columns of the Temple of Jupiter, come from a world which revered antiquity as it did nature, seeing the same mystery in both...
...find a nicer man," says one Boston lawyer. "But his sweeping decisions tend to be insensitive." Others regard his iron will with something approaching awe. In one unsolicited endorsement last summer, Red Sox Pitcher Bill Lee described Garrity as "the only man in this town with any guts...
...world she encounters has a meaning only insofar as it has been infused with the life of Dostoevsky's art. As a young girl she had read his novels cloistered in the bushes outside her parents' home until they were snatched away by her older sister. She is in awe of the eminent writer, and at first he is equally uncomfortable in front of her. He must complete The Gambler in order to pay off debts left him by the death of his brother, and he has decided to dictate the novel rather than writing it himself. For two days...
Defense was the name of the game in the first half of the pivotal contest. K-House defensive coordinator Mike Bruich's crew kept their shut out string intact. Although Eliot House declined to roll over in awe of the highly touted Kirkland offensive crunchers...