Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Rights. The committee, its members reported, found "much that has shocked us, and much that has made us feel ashamed." The committee felt that everyone in the U.S. was entitled to the protection of four basic rights: to safety. and security of person, to citizenship and its privileges, to equality of opportunity, to freedom of conscience and expression. At present only freedom of conscience and expression, said the committee, is "relatively secure...
...celebration heralded great change as well as the old and welcome feel of peace. Since 1941, Honolulu's population had grown from 150,000 to 268,000, that of the islands as a whole from 400,000 to 525,000. In the city, housing was short and prices high (eggs, $1.45 a dozen; milk, 25? a quart...
...criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol on my neck...
...feel myself a strong conviction that he [Cripps] is leading us down the wrong road, and that at the end of all his efforts and our privations, we shall in a year or two be worse off than we are now. . . . Exports . . . are only that part of the iceberg that glitters above the surface of the ocean...
Everything is reduced except "Harvey Harvard," a monstrous sized albino rabbit whose extraordinary dimensions frighten all but the hardiest "pupil" who might feel inclined toward biological experiments and reflex testing...