Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago. He said shyly: "Well, it was awfully cold, and there was a wind blowing." I asked him how he felt when the curve was "exponential." "I didn't think much of anything because I knew it was going to work," he said. And what did he feel this afternoon, five years later? He looked at the slush and shrugged his shoulders: "Well, for better or for worse, it's here. . . ." He grinned through his teeth and mounted the platform. A photographer yelled: "Hey, Fermi, take off your...
...more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles-no automobiles...
...operation is finished, and in the hardly lighted dormitory I watch for the man's awaking. Scarcely has he recovered consciousness when he stares about him and ejaculates again & again, 'I've no more pain! I've no more pain!' His hand feels for mine and will not let it go. Then I begin to tell him and the others in the room that it is the Lord Jesus who has told the doctor and his wife to come to the Ogowe, and that white people in Europe give them money to live here...
...drug in 20 cases. All were in the last, dying stage of cancer, beyond help from any standard treatment. Five of the 20 died in spite of the new drug. But in every case the drug had dramatically stopped the pain and at least made the patients feel healthy and cheerful. One patient, nine hours before he died, had felt so well that he demanded to be sent home...
...Nicolson, no poet himself, suggests that the main reason why poets are considered madder than other people is that they like to display their eccentricities: "All writers, and especially all poets, feel it dull to be thought completely normal...