Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Believe it or not, I feel no bitterness toward the Japanese, despite the hell they gave me on the Bataan "Death March" and 3½ years of prison "existence" as their guest. I did at first, but for my own peace of mind soon conquered this feeling. Neither do I feel any bitterness toward a rattlesnake. I see him for the venomous, treacherous reptile he is. EDMUND J. LILLY...
Comes now Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone, with their scholarship for young Nishiyama, to make me feel that maybe-repeat maybe-the 3½ years that I spent as a prisoner of war were not in vain...
...Community men" meditate much on the meaning of the Incarnation, which they feel obligates all Christians to minister to men's bodies as well as to their souls. This obligation carries through to the body politic. "It is wrong," says George MacLeod, "to pray only for 'Margaret suffering from tuberculosis,' if you know too well the noisome tenement in and by which the suffering began. If we work with Margaret in prayer, we must work with Margaret's father in the housing issues at the next election...
...office by telephone. Says he: "If I didn't keep my guard up all the time, those goddamned bankers would scalp me in a minute." (His habit of pronouncing "goddamned bankers" as if it were one word is so familiar to his banking friends that they no longer feel sworn...
...rebuff last week. Said Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the export-conscious Board of Trade: "I am certain there are millions of [British] filmgoers who are anxious to see the best films from other countries. But there are limits to our appetite, both quantity and quality, and we also feel that exchange implies reciprocity." Unless Hollywood exports improve, he warned, Britain may well restrict them by imposing quotas and tariffs...