Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rawhide Justice. Herman was 13 when his father first began to feel his way around in politics. The family lived in little (pop. 1,904) McCrae, 168 miles southeast of Atlanta, where Mattie Talmadge operated a 1,000-acre farm while her husband practiced law and became gradually disgruntled at the rarity with which McCrae needed lawyers. As a country boy, Herman fished and swam in nearby Sugar Creek, hunted, drove the family's 15 cows to milking, cleaned the dirty kerosene-lamp chimneys ("I don't know anything more disgusting...
...than a tall, thin, hard-jawed woman in her late 20s known as Nannarella. Left motherless at five, Nannarella worked the market with her father for years, and when he went off to war she carried on alone. Nannarella had an un canny ability with figures, and an innate feel for market values. A touch of frost on a dark morning in Rome was enough to tell her that the first strawberries would be meager and command a high price. By the time Nannarella reached 24, she was a market queen with 25 obedient "subjects...
...some of its military obligations is understandable from a military and from an economic point of view. The economy of many European nations, particularly Britain and France, is in critical condition, to a large extent because of the size of their military budgets. From the military aspects, European nations feel that as they can not compete with the United States or Russia in atomic striking power, their most potent asset is a sound industry and economy...
...since girls in the cooperatives have chosen this kind of life, they are generally enthusiastic about their home-making experiences. Since many have little conception of how to cook at the beginning of the year, unusual fare is the frequent result, but most girls feel that on the whole they have better and certainly hotter food than the dorm kitchens serve. And of course there is the inestimable advantage of being able to invite men to come in and share in the cooking...
...personalize foreign relations," Worthy commented, "but I feel that an awful lot of our troubles must be laid at the shifting feet of John Foster Dulles...