Word: awestruck
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...Registration Issue of September 1954, The Crimson published a full-page spread of photos of the destruction, featuring students awestruck at the knee-deep rains. Students, however, remained unharmed in the safety of their dorm rooms...
...Anaheim Angels by tacking Los Angeles onto the team name, relegating Anaheim, a city of 343,000, 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, to a mere appendage. He also granted the Angels the dubious distinction of being the only major pro-sports franchise identified by two cities. Yet tonight awestruck fans greet him like a savior. A man in a WE ARE NOT LA Angels T shirt praises him. "It means so much to have a Mexican-American owner," a Hispanic fan tells Moreno, the first Latino team owner in major U.S. sports. "As long as we win," says another...
...Solo, and when I pray, it's for God to whisk me away to the Pinot-drenched Santa Ynez Valley of Sideways. But I am also relishing my old Star Wars anticipation. True, Lucas' beautiful but turgid prequel trilogy has disappointed--but then again I am no longer an awestruck boy secluded in a theater, trying to find himself in that place far, far away...
...list for 36 weeks. Last week the 2 millionth copy came off the press, a feat bettered by only a few books, including Gone With the Wind and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The author, who has not promoted the book and assigned most of its profits to charity, is still "awestruck" by the success. "I'm told America loves listening to me, but I love listening to America," says lacocca, who receives about 500 letters a week and reads 100 of them a night. "I think the book just hit a responsive chord." Does that mean there will be a sequel...
...students and other members of the Cambridge community gathered to hear award-winning poet Maurice Manning read from his latest work, A Compilation for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D.Boone, Long Hunter, Black Woodsman & Co. The Yale Younger Poet (2002) and professor of English at Indiana University seemed awestruck that such a large crowd had gathered on his behalf...