Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suddenly there was a hard jar, just like when a tooth is pulled and you feel it crunch. The burning motor had fallen loose. The wing kept burning and we were coming down...
...disunity of India were a personal affront. To Gandhi, ahimsa (nonviolence) is the first principle of life, and satyagraha (soul force, or conquering through love), the only proper way of life. In the whitewashed, DDT-ed compound which serves him as headquarters, Gandhi licked his soul wounds: "I feel [India's violence] is just an indication," he told his followers, "that as we are throwing off the foreign yoke, all the dirt and froth is coming to the surface. When the Ganges is in flood the water is turbid...
...many young violinists who feel called, Isaac Stern was one of the chosen. He had faced the fearsome scrutiny of New York critics in a Town Hall recital like dozens of other ambitious youngsters every year, and unlike most, he had won the nod. Last week, short, chunky Isaac Stern was back in Manhattan to be the first soloist o'f the season with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in the an nual summer concerts in Lewisohn Sta dium. To his native gifts, which he would be the last to call genius, he had added the three...
...been greatly restricted by Regulation W, a wartime emergency measure. Buyers have had to plunk down one-third of the purchase price on cars, refrigerators, etc., pay off the rest within 15 months. Last week, President Truman said he would soon scrap Regulation W as he does not feel that such war measures should be retained indefinitely. But he hoped Congress would make consumer credit control permanent. Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the House Banking and Currency Committee why it should...
...World Bank last week was beginning to feel like a village moneylender. Its capacity to lend could scarcely make a dent in world needs. Wistfully, President John J. McCloy told of plans to float the bank's first debentures in July-$250 million worth, at around 3% interest. If they are sold, other issues will be floated. The cash from the first issue will just replace the $250 million lent to France. It will leave the bank with only the $727 millions in U.S. currency it now has available for loans. But the world's need...