Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to be put on the spot here. You must realize there is a growing resistance to these programs. I've been out on the hustings and I know. I think we should hear from our committees who are in Europe now. I don't feel that I can commit the House until Mr. Taber and the others return...
Senator Bridges: I feel that my committee [Appropriations] ought to see for itself first...
...told that there was a chance he might live. But he would probably be blind. Calmly he took up the study of Braille. After he knew he was dying, he made a final "balancing of the books." He counted up more credits than debits, and told his readers: "I feel a darling of the gods...
General Electric's Charles E. Wilson was inclined to feel the same way. There was no economic mandate, said he, for a bust to follow the current boom. "The reasons which underlie our inflation seem to have been more solid than we anticipated. ... It is difficult not to reach the conclusion, in the face of continued buying at high prices, that these prices are more strongly based, and the whole price structure less vulnerable, than was the case...
...lecture on The Female, Graham used a half-clad model called the Goddess of Health (she was the beauty who became Lady Hamilton). For another, on Earth-Bathing, he sat naked in a pit of earth while explaining how much better it made his skin and blood feel. The big feature was the Celestial Bed, which would "rectify such physical impediments as impotence and sterility." To use it for a night, with unascertained results, a childless duke paid Graham a fee of 500 guineas...