Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history were wreaking havoc throughout the country. And at blitz-damaged Buckingham Palace 150 repairmen were holding a protest meeting in "disgust at being employed on such a site when the suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because it was gracious and considerate, but because the royal heiress, for all her pretty apology, was not really having much...
...democracy may be learned by rote, the dynamics must be bred into a people over a period of generations--merely teaching the Germans to hold elections is not enough. The occupation will be completed successfully not when the Germans act in a democratic manner, but when they think and feel in a democratic manner as well...
...viscera on photographic plates, thereby unmasking many incipient diseases. Mass x-ray programs, recently inaugurated in Watertown and Somerville, have uncovered a numerically small but potentially serious number of cases of tuberculosis and lung tumor among men in their early twenties. Even veterans, recipients of pre-separation examinations, cannot feel completely sanguine about their physical condition, for their x-ray plates are inspected by busy and not always thorough medics, who view the whole procedure as a vexatious but necessary duty...
...Soviet Union lay low; its press snarled "Hitlerism." The Communists could be expected to feel out the new U.S. policy by offensives in areas far from Greece. Poland's press bitterly complained that, after such "expansion by the means of loans," the U.S. would not have enough left over for "needy countries" (such as Poland). Obviously looking for assistance from closer friends, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and Industrial Minister Hilary Mine had just junketed to Moscow for joint-defense and trade talks...
...most Andros natives, although they know well the little men with their pink, staring eyes, toothless mouths and flame-red beards, avert their eyes when they feel a chickcharney near by, for if you bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...