Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King's activity in the antiwar movement are cited by Williams as indicative of the new directions in which King was moving. Because these new directions posed genuine threats to the institutionalized power of the Church and State in some exercise of white power in America, they provoked "the awe-the United States... that cut King down in conspiracy, and then conspired to plug the memory of the man with putty...
...angrily severe in his orders to Caliban his slave. His Prospero possessed the strength and virility to make the aging character less concerned with his own leave-taking than with ensuring himself that those around him awake to the significance of their destined relationships in the proper spirit of awe and responsibility...
...Muskie is labeled, cast, watched. He is more wary than the others, the price of being ahead. Yet all of his experience has not erased his sense of awe about being where he is and who he is. And in a way, that is his strength. There is newness still about him, an abiding belief in the goodness of people that continues to rise to the surface, and even his temper emerges as a very special righteous indignation, a rare quality in the gray of Washington's current power holders. Ed Muskie, the Polish immigrant tailor...
...back wing chairs and good port. Across the table, C. Aubrey Smith, his mustache drooping imperially, leans forward in his scarlet mess dress tunic to rearrange the saltcellars, silverware and apples on the table before him. There are proud mutterings of hussars, lancers, and Royal Scots Greys, tones of awe for the Panzergrenadiers. "There they were," he announces with grave mien. "And over here, a thin red line...
...second acts in American lives. At 49 she is in the best second act of her life. Her blue-green eyes catch the light and the audience's rapt attention; her body seems beyond the aspiration of girls half her age. She is simultaneously a source of awe, envy and consolation. Middle-aged men see her as carnality enshrined: the girl who stayed as young in life as in memory. Their wives think, if she can do it, I can do it. Just a few weeks of dieting and a little exercise...