Word: awestruck
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...Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
...spectators who were in the stands for that first game were awestruck. Said the Boston Evening Transcript, it a structure "the like of which is not to be found in this country, and in the Old World, only in a few of the ancient cities of Greece and Italy...
...doing fine. He winged a defiant cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...
Western radio monitors, tuning in on a special children's broadcast on the Soviet home radio, heard the Russian equivalent of a Sunday-school lesson. A narrator told of a group of youngsters visiting the Kremlin. The children stood, awestruck, under a lighted window late at night, imagining Stalin to be working there. Said a boy actor...
According to awestruck natives, the Abominable Snowmen are half-man, half-beast. They have toes at the heels of their feet to help them climb and they live on human flesh, with an occasional yak thrown in. Their long matted hair falls over their eyes when they run downhill. The female is as deadly as the male, but is hampered by huge, pendulous breasts that she tosses over her shoulders when she wants to move in a hurry...