Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lausche had already all but taken himself out of the race. Cleveland's Mayor Tom Burke, the only other Democrat with a solid chance of beating Taft, was showing a marked reluctance to get into the fight. Taft felt so encouraged that he remarked to a friend: "I feel too good too early...
Even condemned murderers in death cells may soon feel the motherly touch of Britain's welfare state. Harley Cronin, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, recently wrote as follows to the Prison Commission: "After a long spell of waiting, both the prisoner and the staff get thoroughly tired of playing cards, chess, etc., and the provision of wireless would be a boon . . . With careful selection suitable programs could be tuned into." At week's end the Home Office, which supervises British prisons, still had the request under consideration...
...love of my mother, which God has given us as the dearest thing in our lives? Just think that there can be no family without a mother . . . What reason can you give for defining me as a bloodthirsty scoundrel if I kill you only because I feel a duty toward my mother...
...time she got through Caravan, everyone knew Mary Lou was feeling all right. She had always relied more on her piano than her personality, and this time, bobbing to the beat with an impish smile, she was giving them everything-boogie-beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...
...kids around Chicago's tough, slummy Division Street had a game called Let Her Fly. It was easy to learn, and it was a dandy game because it made the winner feel good and the loser feel terrible. All the player had to do was wrap up some garbage, sneak up on his opponent and slam it in his face. But the play had to be fair & square. Just before the pitch the thrower had to yell...