Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beating, as prescribed by Carroll's Duchess in Alice in Wonderland, was not recommended as a cure. Allergic children, think Drs. Miller and Baruch, are like cornered animals, and thus suffer enough. In common with other children, they often feel rejected by their mothers and become hostile to their parents. Hostility, according to Miller and Baruch, "is an almost universal phenomenon in our culture." But the allergic children are afraid to bring their hostility out into the open ; they bottle it up until it breaks out as illness. They feel guilty about their hostility and are really punishing themselves...
...seemed to be an upper limit to speed. As airplanes flew faster & faster, strange things had happened to them. Hard, unseen fists punctured their metal skins. Mysterious arms reached out of the air to wrestle with their controls. Sometimes a wartime fighter pilot, diving too fast in combat, would feel his stick freeze fast. No matter how he tried, he could not pull out of the dive. Sometimes he did not live to tell the tale. Sometimes the demon let go just in time, and the shaken pilot got back to his base to describe his hair-raising experience. Aerodynamicists...
Chuck Yeager could not see much, but he had plenty to do. Swiftly he checked the instruments, tried the controls and adjusted his oxygen mask. Outside he could hear the thunder of the B-29's great engines and feel the vibration as the bomber climbed higher & higher. He felt it wheel on a turn, and heard Major Cardenas' voice on the radio: "Am turning on downwind leg at 21,000 ft." Then the bomber wheeled again. "Am turning on the base leg," said Major Cardenas. "Five minutes to drop time...
...course, my pictures are sarcastic too. I mean, the signs say 'Go Here, Go There' when you don't really have to, and on Sundays, when there's no traffic, the stoplights keep on blinking as if they were crazy. Don't you feel that...
Persuasive Fulton Sheen would like to introduce modern man to God by way of St. Thomas Aquinas' famed five proofs from reason of God's existence, but he feels that many a harassed, scatterbrained modern man may be "too confused to grasp them." So Author Sheen begins his book where the readers of self-improvement volumes seem to feel most at home: the realm of psychology. "If the modern soul," he writes, "wants to begin its quest for peace with its psychology instead of with our own metaphysics, we will begin with psychology ... If the modern man wants...