Word: awestruck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over-the-air and cable services rely heavily on wholly secular reruns from the self-confident and squeaky-clean '50s. Adults are likely to be wistful, and children intrigued, about a time when society's rules were clearer and conformity with them more satisfying-and when, as awestruck viewers of The Millionaire (1955-60) have learned, a dollar was really a dollar...
...celebrated playwright, a magazine editor, an actress. She was the wife of Henry R. Luce, co-founder of Time Inc. She had been a Congresswoman and was on her way to becoming an Ambassador. It was small wonder that when 18-year-old Wilfrid Sheed met her he was awestruck. Her intimidating husband, the novelist-critic recalls, "summed me up with brutal accuracy as someone he didn't have much to learn from, certainly not enough to crank up his famous stammer for." But Clare Boothe Luce was something else. At 46, she remained "drenchingly beautiful" and "slightly coquettish...
...change of clothing in her backpack. Traveling from Calcutta to Nepal and Kashmir, she lived in cheap hotels and sometimes washed her clothes on the rocks beside rivers. In the depths of Calcutta's desperate poverty, she was ushered into Mother Teresa's presence and found herself awestruck: "That face is so gorgeous, with its millions of lines. She held my hands and looked at me with those eyes of strength, calm, determination, wisdom. In a dark time, she is truly a light." Except for her personal expenses, Stratas is donating her Met Bohème fees...
...swam down . . . we were stunned and awestruck at the immensity of the ship as she took form beneath us."-Peter Gimbel...
...Sixteen teams go to the NCAAs, and we're one of them," said an awestruck Pompan at the match...