Word: awing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many have been to Harvard, and have had longer experience than I in its lore and renown. But I came with such an enthusiastic heart, and with such eager eyes that to me the meanest twig of Harvard is filled with awe and tradition...
When he considered his right-hand punch, Ingemar Johansson spoke in terms of muted and mystical awe that such a thing could be. "The arm works by itself," said he. "It is faster than the eye. When I hit any man, he cannot stand...
...decade since he became Chancellor of West Germany, oaken-faced Konrad Adenauer has acquired in the minds of his countrymen the stature of a stern father-awe-inspiring, sometimes overrigid, the living symbol of righteous and unshakable purpose. But, though the public has seldom seen it, there is an obverse side to Adenauer's character: a nagging, emotional mistrustfulness that can convert him in the blink of an eye to a man of angry impulse. Last week Konrad Adenauer, 83, gave full rein to his impulsiveness and by doing so flawed an unsurpassed international reputation for rock-like consistency...
...sculptors too often end up with a glittering space divider or macabre wall hanging. Startling and even elegant as such modern objects can be (see color pages), they tend more to snag the imagination like an unexpected piece of barbed wire than hold the eye transfixed in admiration and awe...
...Ward: "It's a man's world, and I'm not sure that isn't the way it should be. So what happens is that a woman always works a little harder to prove a point. I don't have a bit of awe about the job. I'm very confident...