Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britishers declared yesterday after the Debate Council had shown them the College. "We've sung "The Whiffenpoof Song' with the Yale debaters at Mory's, and we had our first glimpse of the Pacific after our match with California, but right here in Cambridge we have been made to feel more at home than anywhere else on the trip...
...Emperor he took private anatomy lessons from Court Physician Jean Nicolas Corvisart, but the lessons made him feel ill; often he asked doctors for some assurance that disease could not be inherited. On St. Helena, a month before his death, he returned to questions about the anatomy and physiology of the stomach. As he was dying, the hidden fear erupted in his delirium: "My father . . . the pylorus ... I have known it for a long time...
...Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week there was the feel of the sea. As yachtsmen crowded into the 1948 National Motor Boat Show, they were "piped aboard" by the cheery notes of a boatswain's whistle. There was another cheery note: in the cheaper price class there were more boats than ever. Some prices were down from last year's, though most were...
...that September morning, a Japanese lieutenant of machine cannon on the island of Peleliu looked out over the Pacific Ocean and noted in his diary that what he saw made him "so furious I could feel the blood pounding in my veins throughout my body." The U.S. Marines had come, and with them a naval escort that stretched as far as the eye could see. After ten days of pounding, the warships and carrier planes ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied...
Author Pratt has told the Marines' story so simply and graphically that civilian readers will share the feel of battle, and so soundly that the book could serve as a text on amphibious warfare...