Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued. Premier Gottwald's "action committees" seized most factories not yet nationalized; they occupied all the ministries not yet in charge of Communists. President Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel the people's will is to achieve a progressive and really socialist life through peaceful and orderly means. . . . You know my sincerely democratic creed. I cannot but stay faithful to this creed even at this moment. ... I beg of you ... let us all together begin negotiations again...
Said a friend: "Geoffrey was everybody's conscience. At times, you didn't feel you could face...
...declared low-moaning Torchsinger Libby Holman, thinking back nearly 20 years, "I really didn't know what I was doing. I suppose my voice had a natural quality. . . ." Now, after years of on-&-off retirement, she was singing in a Manhattan nightclub. "Today, I have studied and really feel I understand . . ." said she gravely to an interviewer. "I think so few people know anything about the music that is indigenous to their own country...
...Giuseppe feel about his reception? Said he, in the one word of American he learned from G.I.s during the war: "O.K." Born in Sicily, Giuseppe studied for the priesthood until he was 15 and found a girl. ("Until then I thought parents bought children in the market place, but when I found different-no seminary for me.") During the war, serving in the Italian army, he was captured by the Germans, but escaped in women's clothes he stole from the camp show equipment. He arrived in the U.S. with eleven trunks. Says Giuseppe: "I want to make much...
When stories are passed by senior editors, the copy desk sends them to the circles' center, Managing Editor Matthews. From the start of the work week he has been reading papers, magazines, dispatches, trying to get the "feel" of the week's news, to figure out what is important and what isn't. He has probably sent out 40 or 50 notes to editors and writers. These include suggestions ranging from an outline of the lead story in National Affairs to a nice phrase from the Economist. A dozen times a day, he is in touch with...