Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman grinned appreciatively. What we're after, he said, is grain. He said he knew that people sometimes feel they have been imposed upon, but this is an attempt to do voluntarily in a free country what other nations have to do with police-state methods...
...radio stations were more vulnerable targets than juke boxes. Broadcasters .would probably soon feel the pinch of Petrillo's ban on transcribed programs (of the 900-plus stations in the U.S., only about one-third employ musicians; many a small station owes its livelihood to the transcribed singing commercial). Petrillo had another threat up his sleeve; he might bar his musicians from playing on programs carried across the country by radio networks...
Giant Swing. That was only the beginning of the Sky Queen's ordeal. The sight of her, tumbling and pitching "like a giant swing at Coney Island," made Captain Paul Cronk, commander of the Bibb, feel "horrified" and "sick." He had been awakened by a steward only a little before, had "found myself frozen stiff in the middle of my quarters" by the news that the plane carried 69 people...
Nellie is a showman who spreads fun with darting glances and impish inflections. Says she: "I've got to feel what I'm doing and I'm not happy until my audience feels it too. ... I can sense it, I can tell from their faces...
Late in the 1930's, young U.S. leftist intellectuals began to feel badly shaken in their convictions, including the conviction that they knew what they were talking about. This was the period when Arthur Koestler and others broke the news about Communism, and this is the "middle of the journey" for Trilling's principal character...