Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with all you write, but I feel you have the right to express yourself freely...
...history an Andover requirement, despite a trustee who said that U.S. history would be made compulsory only over his dead body. ("In three years," Fuess calmly recalls, "he "was in his grave, and American history was required of every senior.") Fuess argues that too many private-school graduates "feel that they have performed their civic duty when they have grudgingly paid their taxes and damned the Government...
Britons wanted something to make them feel better, and London's press had built Heavyweight Bruce Woodcock, a conscientious pug-ugly, into a minor national symbol of hope. Then Joe Baksi, an invader from the U.S., rudely flattened the symbol by breaking Woodcock's jaw in the first round and going on to a seventh-round technical knockout. The BBC announcer made the fight sound as if a big bully had picked on a nice little man in the street who was harmlessly minding his own business...
...A.B.C., 18,000 men compete and the odds are against any one expert. In the singles, each man is limited to three games. In so brief a test, he has no chance to study the beds (alleys), get the feel of the wood,-the bounce of the floor. The best Varipapa could do was to roll 13 consecutive strikes...
...last week a tall, powerfully built man stepped out of the board room at T.W.A. headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., peeled off his coat, shouted to a friend, "I feel pretty good now, Swede, let's wrestle." LaMotte Turck Cohu, 51, felt pretty good because he had just been elected president of T.W.A. to replace Jack Frye...