Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed him." Then he solemnly reminded his boys that they and he must be careful not to get the big head: "Due to the fact that through luck and the good Lord you happen to have a Chief Executive of the United States, you mustn't . . . feel that you are better than the other people who served and fought for the country...
Skulk, Ribs, Eardrums. Legislators feel that the one sure way to stabilize the country is to fire officials who use Japanese methods. The National Assembly claims that the administration never really enforced the national traitors' law against Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese. An Assembly committee established its own jails, courts, investigators and armed police and hauled in collaborators, including high officials of the regular police. Last week's police raid disrupted this Assembly "law enforcement" system...
...first trip back to Moscow since the war, Paul Robeson (see U.S. AFFAIRS) was a howling success. "You know how I feel to be back on Soviet soil," he told a cheering audience in Tchaikovsky Hall. He sang in English, French, Spanish and Russian, and tried out his own version of some of the words in Ol' Man River ("We must fight to death for peace and freedom"). He also introduced to the Russians an old favorite called Scandalize My Name, and dedicated it to the "socalled free Western press." The comrades loved every minute...
...feel that although the authorities cannot be accused of "overemphasizing" sports, there is a regrettable overemphasis on the subject in the minds of people like "the Harvard man" of whom I spoke earlier. Moreover, there is a distressing number of these "Harvard men," although many of them cannot be easily identified as such. Still, all of them, whether attired in grey or not, assume a cleancut, fanatic, and dangerously belligerent attitude when discussing sports...
...Miami, the Knight-owned Herald (circ. 186,166) and the Cox-owned Daily News (circ. 88,223) take turns denouncing gamblers and racketeers who do a reputed $100-million-a-year business in Dade County. Most Miamians ignore the periodic newspaper crusades; they seem to feel that the gamblers are only giving well-heeled tourists the fling they want...