Word: awestruck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor Grosvenor, 57, happily follows the principles set by his father, believes that "controversy" should be left to other publications. Last week Geographic staffers, their faces solemn and awestruck as any tourist's, legged it eagerly through Jamaica, Yucatan, Cambodia, Hawaii, Chile, Australia, Italy, India and the South Seas. What they sensed and saw would be pleasantly and blandly recorded, at the Magazine's leisure, in some future issue. No rush about it: a magazine whose color inks are mixed to stay brilliant 2½ centuries cannot be expected to hurry...
...Macy's, it announced that it had kept strictly within the $5,000 retail limit for furniture set by the U.S. Information Agency. It offered to let one of the awestruck Tassmen come in and buy the same thing for $5,000-after first comparing prices at Gimbels, of course...
...escort DALE W. PETERSON--DE 337--and was on her bridge as we came into Pearl Harbor from San Francisco when the first news arrived of the explosion of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Although I had no way of understanding what an atom bomb was, I was absolutely awestruck, as I suppose all men were for a moment. Intuitively it was then that I realized for the first time that morally war is impossible...
Author Parkinson is the Darwin of the managerial evolution. Of special interest is his Law of the Decline and Fall of Institutions : "a perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse." Is the tourist awestruck before St. Peter's in Rome? The Popes "lost half their authority while the work was still in progress." The reign of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," began to set shortly after he settled at Versailles. On the shores of Lake Geneva stands the finest mausoleum since the Taj Mahal the Palace of the Nations, which opened...
...Test. Despite Knowland's devotion to the Senate, it does not fully satisfy his sense of destiny. When nobody was certain whether the 1955 heart attack would keep Ike from running, Knowland began making presidential noises. Recalls young Joe Knowland (who is devoted to his father but somewhat awestruck): "The hardest thing I have to do is carry on a conversation with my father. Everything has to be just right or he won't talk. But he was so happy when he was getting ready to run for President that he was bubbling. He could talk about anything...