Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants to do the most he can with the funds. He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want. I can not help it,' he says, 'but sometimes I feel it is more important to give to the sick and poor than to build my church...
...been watching Andrei Gromyko, off & on, for nine years, ever since he arrived in Washington in 1939, a tall, dark, diffident young man with darting, unfixed eyes. He had not changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
...will of God be done," said Luigi Einaudi one day last week. He had just been told that he had been elected President of the new Italian Republic. "May Italians never have to reproach me for the pride that I feel at this moment." He had not sought the office. Then he thought of the inauguration to come next day. In consternation he exclaimed: "But I don't have a black suit-only this grey one and my tweeds...
...hours or more that I have spent proctoring examinations this academic year, I feel that I have had adequate opportunity to examine and learn the attitudes of the various officials conducting the examinations in the University. Mr. Stanley Leonard has been my immediate supervisor at at least half of the examinations at which I have officiated, and as far as I could detect, his attitude at all times was far from misanthropic...
Perie will be difficult competition, Smart fears, because he has been working out all winter "getting the feel of his equipment." Armchair study combined with the track managership this spring hasn't been the best sort of preparation for Smart...