Word: awestruck
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...joined the tour in the Bay Area last month, more than 1,200 people waited in line for up to three hours to see her. I heard half a dozen young women tell De Laurentiis they had enrolled in culinary school because of her. One young man was so awestruck that he blurted that De Laurentiis should leave her husband for him (which was all the more awkward since the husband in question, 42-year-old clothing designer Todd Thompson, was standing nearby...
Bakr, a veteran of dozens of battles against U.S. troops, says he was instantly awestruck. "I could not feel my tongue, my hands, my legs ... I could not move," he says, his eyes widening at the very memory. "For a few moments I could not even think. My mind went completely blank." Bakr says al-Zarqawi led him into another room, with prayer mats and copies of the Koran. "Come, let us pray," al-Zarqawi said. Bakr says they prayed for about three hours, with al-Zarqawi reciting from memory several long surahs, or chapters from the Koran...
...worked flexible jobs in Montreal--waiting tables, delivering furniture--to fund trips around the world. He visited Indonesia and Peru, and went to Africa a couple of times. (His parents are South African.) He became intrigued by what he terms the "predictable cycle" of traveling: being awestruck, comparing places with one another, getting homesick...
...colleagues answer the phone, "Turen," it sounds like they're calling themselves bumpkins. Yu himself remembers being called tu when he arrived in Beijing from a rice farm in Zhejiang to enroll at the Beijing University of Forestry in 1980. He was 17, could barely speak Mandarin and was awestruck by the straightness of the city's poplar-lined roads. This "farmerist outlook," as Yu describes his own first impressions of Beijing, is the reason Chinese cities look the way they do: "We're a country of farmers. When we make it to the city we want to feel...
...lobby and changing tables in the rest rooms, and most of her fans--2,500 of them at this show alone--come up only to her hips. "I planned to be a rock star, but I didn't think I'd be doing this," she says, surrounded by awestruck children backstage at the third show of Jamarama Live!, the first ever preschool-music festival to tour nationally. "I thought I was going to be carrying amps up a flight of stairs at 5 in the morning." Instead her show is over by nap time...