Word: awestruck
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...working on a mechanical drawing of a clutch spring (which drove me out of engineering forever), and I was worried that they'd ask me a question because I didn't know what the hell I was doing--I'd been there only 30 days. I was just awestruck by the fact that there was Colonel Lindbergh with my new boss, coming to shake my hand...
...outside the White House will be quibbling there, thanks to Lewinsky's phenomenal memory and careful record keeping. Awestruck and infatuated though she may have been, Lewinsky was a cool and precise recorder of every moment she spent with Clinton--what they said and did, which Secret Service agents were warily watching them come and go, which aides were shooting daggers at her outside the Oval Office, which phone calls Clinton took during their time together. The narrative relies on Lewinsky's testimony for the particulars of 10 alleged sexual encounters, but to bolster her credibility--she did, after...
...third of my colon for polyps. After enemas are administered, I am in position. A congenial nurse named Debby clutches my hand reassuringly. Achkar wonders if I would like to see the proceedings on a video monitor. Suddenly a world I never imagined existed lights the screen. I am awestruck, feeling the amazement that a spelunker might experience upon discovering a similarly rose-colored passage deep in the earth. But my wonder is quickly tempered; the exploration I am witnessing is in my own bowels, not the earth's. Also, it is painful, and I gasp as the creature squirts...
There's increasing applause for Elvis' brand of skating and not just from the awestruck audience. "I think the men's competition should be judged an athletic event," says 1988 gold medalist Brian Boitano. "When you have so much athletic ability, you don't have time to be artistic, and I don't think you should be expected...
...help me with the campaign." Next he asks if she would mind conveying a little package to Giancana in Chicago. It turns out to be a satchel full of cash, maybe $250,000, in hundred-dollar bills. Would it be safe to transport so much money? asks the awestruck young woman. The next President of the United States of America is both cryptic and to the point: "You're better off without knowing...