Word: rapt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 1939, Joseph Stalin said to the rapt delegates to the 18th Congress of the Russian All Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks): "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world, of spheres of influence and colonies, by military action." Five months later, Stalin concluded his infamous alliance with Adolf Hitler. One week after that, "military action" began...
Ordinarily a blooming lotus merits no such rapt attention from Professor Ohga, who has been studying the genus for 30 years and is known in Japan as "Dr. Lotus." But this plant, lovingly tended by the doctor's good friend, 69-year-old Soy Saucemaker Moemon Ihara, had sprouted from a seed found in a nearby peat bog, imbedded in a neolithic canoe. Counting on 100 years to form each foot of the 15 feet of peat that covered the seed, and adding 500 years for the layer of topsoil above the peat, Dr. Lotus calculated that his seed...
...time. In Chicago, jazz lovers could find Jimmy in such southside clubs as the old Bear Trap No. 1 and Moonlight Inn, shrouded in cigarette smoke, his big eyelids drooping, playing the rich kind of boogie blues that made his fellow Negroes proud and sad, his white listeners rapt and respectful...
...Falcon-eyed," upright and just, he stalks the pages of Asch's novel in many moods: rapt and docile before God's voice in the burning bush, prophetic and lordly as he pronounces plagues on Egypt, exalted as he receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf. Humbly indomitable in faith, he is most moving when he prays for his wayward and wandering people...
...James Astor, who hailed from somewhere in Illinois, built himself quite a promising reputation by painstaking research in travel books without ever having seen the sea, much less traveled. He was sweeping all before him in his senior year when disaster struck one day. He was telling a rapt circle about his experiences in Dijon--he had recently come across a guide book for the town...