Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested than ever in what the U.S. was up to, would watch the renunciation ceremonies in Manila with sidelong intensity. In a temporary grandstand just outside the old, grey Intramuros, in a welter of tropic steam and emotion, there would be excitement which many a straw-hatted Filipino could feel to his heels...
...near Naples, with an old nurse who takes care of him. He was President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies when Mussolini dissolved it, never collaborated with the Fascists. Italy well remembered the election speech of this last pre-Fascist President of the Chamber in 1920: "All shall feel their love for this our land-cradle of us all and deathbed of our fathers-grow more tender as crisis threatens. . . ." Scattered critics complained that "he never did anything bad [because] he never did anything at all," that he was a man "with no passions." But even the rockbound royalists...
...Denver Kiwanis Club, 30 miles away. (Emily is the only woman member-honorary- of Denver Kiwanis.) At the luncheon, Kiwanian after Kiwanian gave Emily a rose and made a little speech; soon she had a big bouquet and eyes full of tears. Sighed 5 ft. 4 in. Emily: "I feel two inches taller...
First Doubts. Soon he too began to feel queasy. As a young state-supported engineering student, he declares, he fell in love with the wife of "one of the most important officials in the Ukrainian government." People in general were suffering and starving. But Julia Mikhailovna and her husband were as rich and well-fed as the Romanovs: "oriental rugs on the floor, tapestries and paintings, crystal chandeliers." Julia herself deplored the contrast. "You may not believe me," she said, "but I am opposed to all this gluttony of the leaders." Kravchenko begged her to reform, to flee with...
...decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water, and I knew that never, never again would I feel the same about the Party, the Leader, the Cause. . . . I would work for the government, I would accept Party assignments, I would make speeches. But it would be all playacting, strategy, while waiting patiently for a chance to escape...