Word: awestruck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who also wanted to see a vision. People came to talk to him, and to see the place on the hill. They brought flowers and votive candles, and ailing children and crippled sisters, and the wept-over photographs of sons killed in the war. They watched, hopefully and awestruck, while Joe kept his nightly vigil. The crowd grew; people came from as far away as Cleveland; last week, on the 17th night, 30,000 jammed into the dirty lot and the nearby streets...
Like the U.S. bankers, but for different reasons, some of the best financial brains at the conference-men from smaller countries which recognize that they have to play a secondary part-were not awestruck by the wisdom of the U.S. and British delegations. (Said one European, wise in the ways of international finance: "The British are too much like schoolteachers. And the Americans are too much like schoolboys. Sometimes I feel like raising my hand and asking to be excused...
Omens of the End. Swedish travelers, from Berlin, dazed and awestruck, described a city of cavedwellers, told of destruction on the Hamburg scale, of extreme suffering from the bitter cold and the total disruption of fuel and food distribution. Fresh bombs were falling into old fires still burning; stiff winds spread the flames...
...eyed, Pacifico Batista a month ago burst from the wilderness where he had hidden 15 years and scared an old crone into hysterics by his mating gestures (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week, from the little Argentine border village of Itacuarare, where Batista was captured by five policemen and an awestruck populace, came a picture of El Tarzan...
...newsmen and women who trouped into the oval study (23 more than had greeted Franklin Roosevelt at his first press conference after Casablanca) full well expected a good show, a high state drama. Many had been awestruck day before with the eloquence of Madame Chiang in Congress (see p. 23). They were not quite prepared for what followed...