Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course around the Middle East, arrived in Cairo to find not a single representative of the Egyptian government at the airport to meet him. Nasser pointedly snubbed him for 24 hours, telling a visiting Japanese politician: "Frankly speaking, I wonder whether I should see Murphy at all, because I feel Murphy cannot understand the Arab mentality...
...raised Foreign Minister Golda Meir was invited to London on short notice. She had just held "satisfactory" talks with the French in Paris, where the De Gaulle government promised stepped-up arms shipments (Israel and France have been buddies against Nasser since Suez). From the British, about whom Israelis feel less sure, Minister Meir wanted a briefing on their intentions in Jordan, and a definite promise that, if the British do pull out, they will leave no arms behind them that could be used by a Nasser-dominated Jordan against Israel...
...sickness, the worst damage appears psychological. Many of them try to conceal their identities because they often find themselves shunned. Says one Japanese bitterly: "People are afraid of us. They think we are going to fall sick and become a burden, or contaminate them. We know now how lepers feel." In a public-opinion poll, 40% of Japanese questioned said they would not marry a bomb survivor; 80% of those who would said they would refuse to have children. But the most gnawing fear of the survivors was expressed by one of them: "Each morning when I wake...
...that the Old Man of the Plea did not want the stories in print because they favored the Red-backed Spanish Loyalists. Rumbled Papa: "I gave him hell for it. I have not changed my attitude about the Spanish civil war. I was for the Loyalists, and I still feel that way about the Loyalists." Actually, explained Hemingway, the stories simply weren't good enough. Esquire readily settled for one story and the tide of publicity...
...books and the little magazines were left without shock value. The surviving quarterlies, usually backed by rich men or foundations and run by professors, have taken on the ivy-clad tone of a graduate faculty tea. Critics quarrel with critics in thin, querulous prose, and authors are made to feel unwelcome...