Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikes which had cost about 4,500,000 man-working-days in 1946 were well out of the way; as the year opened only 1,600 (see below) were on strike. Furthermore, the price line had been held. Looking at the U.S., Canadians could feel smug because their own prices, under orderly decontrol, had stayed fairly firm. They were up only 6½% in the last 18 months, and business was excellent...
...call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez, it was cold...
...Patterson would send me a note saying how about bringing in the Dragon Lady or some other chick. And he used to hate it when the balloons were too long. ... I didn't agree with many of the things he did in his last years. He seemed to feel that in wartime there's a place for a newspaper that is the voice of the disgruntled-and he became that voice. But he was a great...
...might say, 'Try religion.' Why should I? I don't feel a sinner, and, anyway, you haven't seen our parson. He isn't even a man. So far as I can see, the churches seem to have plenty of troubles of their own without bothering them with mine. Squabbling and preaching are all they're good for, and I can get along without either, thank...
...Nine out of ten writers either feel like J.W., or else they used to in former days. Only about one in 20 tells him to go chase himself up a tree...