Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish our Congressmen could live on British Army rations for a month, these rations which all the Britons say guiltily are so much better than their families get at home. I wish they could feel the embarrassment I feel when I read in the papers of the delays on action on the British Loan-and the apathetic attitude toward the world food situation. I believe they would feel, as I regretfully admit I feel, a sense of shame at being an American...
...criticize present membership of the Council, whose work....has been fine in many respects," the letter stated, "but we feel that there is real need at Harvard for a body more truly representative of the students and more directly responsible to them...
...further statement it is averred that legislative action must be carefully considered if it is to be of help, and that "no legislation anywhere among democratic nations has yet succeeded in compelling men to work when they feel themselves sufficiently aggrieved to lay down tools...
Clark's first concern was food. He informed Marshal Ivan S. Konev that he intended to raise the daily calorie level to 1,550 as soon as possible. But, he added, "I know how I would feel if we had been in here first and you came in and immediately raised the food level. It would seem like a deliberate slap in the face. For that reason, I intend to do it gradually." Ever since then, Clark has hammered away at the Russians to maintain decent rations...
Actually, Canadians like to think that they are as broadminded about artistic freedom as the next country. They usually are. What often gives Canadian censorship a bad name is on-the-spot censorship by local customs officials who sometimes feel that riding their own prejudices is interpreting...