Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program pretty frustrating. If foodless days had been decreed by law, the thing would have become a sporting matter of eating and dodging the Feds. But being put on the honor system had thrown the country into a nail-biting state of indecision, and also seemed to make it feel hungry...
...American bullets on the picket lines if trouble starts. If some trigger-happy Tommies or G.I.s begin shooting, Germany's all-important working class center (members of the Socialist and Christian Democratic Union parties) might be pushed right into the Communist lap, where they will be reassured to feel that they had the 'support of brother working class parties of the Cominform countries...
...expects to see an army of over 150 busy digging into the heavy agenda. These will not be "the usual kind who 'go out' for things but will be drawn from those who have top ability." It is selling the Council to apathetic Jawn and then "making him feel the necessity of some particular isolated problem" that Weld has set for his task...
...Pritchett, is usually blunt and British. With such novelists as Lawrence, Wells and Conrad he is less humane. Wells, he writes, lived in a "new world of agitating chemicals, peculiar glands, and obliterating machines. . . . He did not attribute anything but an obstructive value to human personality." Conrad had a feeling for real life, but obscured it with a "dubious Romantic over-world." Lawrence's "phallic cult was a disaster to descriptive writing." "The world is not saved by novelists," Pritchett concludes. ". . . No one could possibly believe what Lawrence believed, and Lawrence hated people if they tried. . . . One day when...
...Three Phases. As the Soviet General Staff sees it, World War III against the Western Powers will fall into three major phases. Rapid occupation of Western Europe is the key to the first. This can be accomplished, they feel, simply by using those troops now available to them in the peacetime or nucleus army. It should not take longer than three weeks...