Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote that he was selling his home and coming to the U.S. to invest his money in mutual-fund shares and to get a job selling them. The president of an insurance company in New Delhi asked if he could come to study M.I.T.'s operations because "I feel that even in an underdeveloped economy there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern paper company, asked if he should sell and invest in M.I.T. shares. Robinson...
...feel that we have only scratched the door of revolution," announced Nasser in an interview with his newspaper Al Ahram. "When the tide of aggression receded from our land, this was the first thing that came to my view: the time had come for real revolutionary action." Nasser confessed that when he came to power in 1952, his revolutionary group of army officers had not fully understood what they were working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change...
...chatter it was easy to forget the one question that matters to every man: How do I myself feel about the picture? Shock and confusion would not be surprising reactions; they occur as naturally as before the coruscating words of John of Patmos: "I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God. and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Peering through his window, Pastor Hill is surprised to find how dependent children feel upon their parents, even in unhappy or broken homes. ("I thank you for helping me get over the flu. Please help my mother get a good strong foothold in her work in Detroit. Give me, O Lord, the sense to learn algebra and to be useful in the Scouts. Amen.") Hill is also astonished at the "strong note of penitence and personal remorse" that runs through the prayers ("I ask thy forgiveness for all the things I have done wrong"). For many children, he says...
...recurrent motifs in the prayers. But Pastor Hill reports that a new element has recently made its appearance-anxiety. "During the war and the subsequent conflict in Korea, the youngsters prayed for those in the armed services. But the war dangers seemed far away; the children themselves did not feel threatened. It is different now. The prayers they write today contain pleas for protection in the event of war, nuclear attack or other crisis ... By the time they are twelve, they have become active sharers in the anxiety...