Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reason, Haiti's 5,000,000 people-unlike those in some of the other Caribbean isles-demonstrate no hostility or arrogance, but only a friendly curiosity toward visitors. Certainly they are not in awe of blancs...
Most spokesmen have also stressed Johnson's "gigantic force" and his unprecedented mastery of power mechanisms in Washington. "You knew you were in the presence of a primeval force," Kearns said. "You had to hate what the force could produce, but you remained in awe of its motion...
...that there were things which had to be told which did not sit well with all the community, we've profited from that, I've profited from it, I think all the rest of us have too. Mr. Halberstam spoke several minutes ago about the lack of awe for figures in respect which The Crimson taught the people of his generation. Well, saying we learned a lack of awe is like saying that Spiro Agnew has overcome shyness in the White House. It was like a sense of awe was not the biggest trouble we had to overcome. I think...
...Lynda. The last speaker tonight I think might be able to tell us a little bit about things that did change very rapidly, to which Linda alluded. Jim Fallows was president of The Crimson in 1969-70. When I was comping fall of freshman year I remember being in awe of him at the time, (laughter). I still have a little bit, you may understand why when I tell you a little about him. The story goes, I'm not sure whether it's true or not, that when Jim came to The Crimson for the first comp meeting...
...missions were man's first raw personal confrontation with the universe beyond this planet, and because of that they were awesome. The awe wore off as the television cameras covered each methodical moment of successive flights, but the best of the images grew into a frieze of transcendence, chiseled on the edges of the mind like Wordsworth's intimations of immortality: the readings from Genesis as Apollo 8 spun toward its rendezvous with the dark side of the moon; the "giant leap for mankind" as Neil Armstrong set his booted foot into the moon dust; the vision...