Word: awed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...confidence. Mitsumasa Yonai knew that he had in him the genes of command. Nearly six feet tall, weighing 188 pounds, with airplane shoulders and a tri-motor voice, big of hands and feet and manner, he had always dominated littler men. His nickname-The White Elephant-was one of awe, and had none of the Occidental connotations of that phrase. It referred to his size; his exceptionally fair and aristocratic complexion, accented in its whiteness by his hair, black and shiny as a phonograph record; and his appearance of strength and wisdom...
...awe-inspiring," exclaims Gold Digger Douglas Fairbanks Jr. when they first sight an Inca ruin, "like the great ruins at Ankor." Undeniably awe-inspiring, the ruins look more like the trylon at the New York World's Fair with the top knocked off. Soon the diggers are blowing the ruins to bits. They have the hidden treasures neatly crated in their jungle hideaway by the time Joan Bennett arrives in quest of her explorer husband...