Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Awe-filled...
...yards on 32 carries against Harvard, but this value to the Big Red attack cannot be summed up in his personal yardage statistics. Every time quarterback Mark Allen would even look at Marinaro, the crowd would let out a deafening roar. The Crimson defense reacted in a similar awe-filled manner, putting eight men on the defensive line...
...used to be that reading the Advocate was an exercise in awe and disappointment. It had a bigger reputation than it could live up to partly because Advocate editors liked to tout the names of former contributors who escaped undergraduate awkwardness and secured niches in various literary pantheons. At times the magazine seemed a testing ground for the efforts of cliquish students who aspired--under the direction of Robert Lowell--toward the techniques of Pound and Eliot. At best much of the material printed was imposingly academic in the Pound-Eliot tradition--and all too often, doctrinaire in approach...
...clear that Leo has come not for reasons of friendship, but out of a searching adolescent curiosity, heightened by upwardly-mobile ambition. And though the hall and lawns continuously awe him, it is the rulers, the adults, the gentlemen and ladies who ignore him, who fascinate him. Even the hall can be a setting for childish games, and its acquiescent housekeepers offer some degree of home comfort. But the elder Maudsleys are to Leo mythical figures, inhabitants of yet-another distant country. Beneath the way of life they share with him, the feel incomprehensible things; Leo is determined to understand...
...When I was a young officer candidate at Quantico, we were taken to see the evening parade at Eighth and I [Aug. 9]. It was an awe-inspiring display of the tradition and discipline for which the Marine Corps is known. Had there been a first sergeant handy with the right papers, we would have signed up to a man for a 20-year hitch...