Word: awing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unknown to the Russians, the people's attention by now had largely turned on an extraordinary drama at the Branden-burger Tor itself. A tall, dark youth had climbed the gate and was wrestling with the red flag on top. The crowd watched his progress with the hushed awe of an audience at an acrobatic show-even as pistol shots sporadically cracked out from the far side along Unter den Linden. Now the crowd cried: "Anbrennen!" (Burn it!). The first youth failed to get the flag down; two more tried, and the third finally sent it fluttering...
...last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process...
Look, Ma! In Los Angeles, awe-struck police arrested Everett C. Miller for doing 50 m.p.h., on the wrong side of the street, without a steering wheel...
...this day Toscanini thinks of Verdi with the same mixture of fear, awe, love and respect with which his own musicians now regard him. From Verdi, he got most of his ideas and ideals of conducting. Verdi, like most composers, was outspoken against conductors who felt they had to "interpret" (i.e., change) his music. Said he: "My manuscripts are clear enough, but I have practically never heard my works interpreted as I imagined them...
Reported Cholly Knickerbocker, in open-mouthed awe: "We doubt that even the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor of China, or the Czar of Russia, when those fabulous courts were at their peak, ever attempted anything on a more colossal scale...