Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiralty, had a sad announcement to make before the House of Lords. Five of His Majesty's oldest and most revered men-o'-war, once the symbols of Britain's might, had been ticketed for the scrap yards. Said Hall: "The First Sea Lord and I feel like two padres conducting the funeral service of a number of old friends...
Proletarian Breath. At the Congress' opening session, Guest Speaker Palmiro Togliatti, dapper Communist boss, suavely declared: "Comrades, we feel profoundly united to you." Silver-haired Sicilian Giuseppe Casadei chimed in: "When peasants go to occupy feudal lands, should they go in separate groups, one Communist, one Socialist? When we face Fascist rifle fire, shall the Communists be in one square and the Socialists in another?" Sweepingly he pointed to a placard: "We want the powerful Socialist Party to be the vanguard of the united Popular Democratic Front." Cried he: "There, comrades, is the way to end proletarian enslavement...
...Laurent was willing. On his arrival in Winnipeg, he told newsmen: "If the national convention feels that it wants me -if the party . . . thinks I could serve my country and promote rather than prejudice the cause of national unity-I would feel it was my responsibility to go through with...
...Paterson, was a sound instinct, for "those prophets seem to be standing on the tiptoe of expectation, waiting for 'Him who is to come.' . . . For there is a profound organic connection between the Old Testament and the New, and nowhere more than in the prophets do we feel the truth of St. Augustine's words: 'In the Old Testament the New lies concealed: In the New Testament the Old lies revealed...
...ambulation ("an ugly phrase for a beautiful idea") means that patients are out of bed as soon as possible, perhaps one or two days after the operation. Result: less pneumonia, better healing of muscles, fewer "sick-man complexes"; patients can relieve bowels and bladder normally, eat better, sleep better, feel better...