Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind wandering was supposed to unclasp his hands as a signal, whereupon a waiting monk gave him three sharp thwacks with a stick. Twice a day Chief Abbot Sogen Asahina, 59, lectured them. "When you are in your bus, seated at the wheel or talking to passengers, and feel fatigue overcoming you, stop what you are doing, and for ten minutes sit upright with your hands clasped. Empty your mind of everything. Just meditate. After ten minutes, drive...
...being a sort of father confessor of Fidel Castro's revolution." Returning to Cuba this month, he was wined and dined by top Cuban government officials, spent some ten hours in close conversation with his friend Fidel. Talking to fellow newsmen, he steadfastly defended Castro. Did he feel any disenchantment at all? "No, I see no reason to," replied Matthews, and in effect repeated the explanation he gave of Castro's conduct in his Times story: "Youth must sow its wild oats...
...Administration economists now feel that the sharp, recovery-inspired rise in industrial production (23% since June 1958) is about ready to level off and, because of the steel strike, may briefly drop a bit. After the drop they see a rise in output to an even higher level. Leading the way will be the 1960 auto model year that begins in October, and a capital-goods boom that is expected to run at the annual rate of $34 billion by the last quarter of this year...
...vast majority of U.S. businessmen, says the report, feel that information gathering should cease "when it conflicts with legality or common morality," confined themselves to such above-board methods as sending a shopper to a competitor or analyzing published sources of information. But 27% reported that espionage had recently been discovered in their industry in forms that would do justice to any government's spy network. Concluded the Harvard men: "Business spying has resulted in the loss of many millions of dollars' worth of valuable corporate information...
...beards: "Every time I see a color advertisement now of the Schweppes man, I feel very sad. I am thinking of all the magnificent beards that went to waste on the Lower East Side when...