Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes me feel pretty humble toward [war correspondents] and all the men in the service who are giving their all so that I can go to high school in the country that's safe and wonderful...
...Stockholm last week a Spanish missionary just out of Japan told how the Japanese feel after three years...
Folks at home began to feel embarrassed. Almost since the war started, they had innocently used the term "G.I. Joe." Then from Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that soldiers resented it, thought it patronizing. Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker." Runyon remembered that in the last war G.I. (i.e., "government issue") meant "the big galvanized iron garbage and ash can in the back of each company barracks...
...both programs assure Jill that hers is superior. For one thing, Rose's records are mostly old and scratchy. But the explanation may be more basic. The fair flower of Tokyo exerts herself mightily to make U.S. servicemen homesick; G.I. Jill's trick is to make them feel at home...
...autumn there were enough cash and promises to guarantee a $200,000-a-year, five-year trial. The school opened with only 25 students (most sponsors could not spare any men). But already students, teachers and sponsors feel confident of success...