Word: awestruck
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...newsmen and women who trouped into the oval study (23 more than had greeted Franklin Roosevelt at his first press conference after Casablanca) full well expected a good show, a high state drama. Many had been awestruck day before with the eloquence of Madame Chiang in Congress (see p. 23). They were not quite prepared for what followed...
...imagine even more pleasant things that delicious minestrone in his lap. But the gushing curses faded into an incredulous stare. The Vagabond was breathing heavily--"inhale, exhale." "It's unfair," he murmured, the paper already a twisted shred. "It's inhuman," he howled, glaring with bloodshot eyes at his awestruck companion...
...biggest noise in an empty barrel for the year," said Clifton Fadiman in the New Yorker. "He is to me like God," wrote an awestruck Freshman in the Confidential Guide poll last spring. "The world's foremost sociologist," was the opinion of a professor in a midwestern university. In panning Sorokin's book on "Social and Cultural Dynamics," Fadiman referred to Harvard's Department of Sociology as a "White Russian WPA." But Professor Sorokin, who is head of that WPA, began his career by being just as red as the rest of his intellectual, revolutionary friends. Back...
...awestruck newsmen in London, who noted his rumpled suit, his rumpled hair, his Willkie campaign necktie-a blue four-in-hand with white stripes spelling his name-he declared: "I have nothing to say except that I have had a fine passage over and that I am here." In Lisbon he had made it as plain as he could that he and the President saw eye to eye on one matter: "The objective of giving full aid to Great Britain finds myself in full accord with President Roosevelt." First of the many Britons whom he questioned was the chambermaid...
...daughter's husband or a man who married his wife's father's sister. Though these three marriages and seven others of their ilk are now legally permissible in England, many a clergyman has refused to perform them, has solemnly shown the Parker table to awestruck applicants...