Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers say that he is honest, fair, shrewd, that he has the common touch, knows the labyrinths of Washington. They feel that he is an able governmental practitioner who knows how to get things done. His administration would be canny, cautious and conservative, and would probably bring about great harmony between the White House and Congress...
...Secretary of State George Marshall could now feel that a real move had been made toward securing the U.S.'s southern flank. Now he could-and must-turn back to a Western Europe that faced Russia on much closer terms. The following afternoon he stood up abruptly. "I have to return to Washington," he said; ". . . the pressure of important matters there demands my return ... I leave with a feeling that we have met in an atmosphere of genuine cooperation." Then he was gone...
Eighty-nine percent of the veterans in American universities are satisfied with the teaching they are getting, but half of them feel that instruction could be improved, a nation-wide poll just released by the Veterans Office proves...
...admirers say that he is a political prodigy who has grown up, a seasoned administrator (he was elected governor four years before Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote...
...eighth floor of the RCA Building, he has sat at the piano, croaking and gesticulating at red-haired Soprano Herva Nelli, while a picture of Verdi stared at her from the piano's littered top. "Nelli," he pleaded, "please do use the expression on your face that you feel in the music. That will bring out the words and the music too." It was an old insistence of his. In rehearsal for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony he had stopped a soloist and asked him, "Do you know what you are singing about? You are singing of brotherhood...