Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro, speaking next, said: "I feel my ideas at odds with those of our illustrious visitor." In support of neutralism, he offered a flattering version of U.S. civil defense: "They have shelters against atomic attack; we do not have even a miserable small hole in which to hide. Why not say these truths? Why not say that Cuba has participated in all the wars and when the wars were over its sugar quota was taken away?"* But Castro thought he knew how Figueres had gone wrong: he had been influenced by "a press campaign emanating from the monopoly of international...
Then Macmillan turned on Nye Bevan, who, in becoming Labor's shadow Foreign Secretary, has left behind his old left-wing Bevanite crowd. As Bevan sat with face flaming, hands clenched, Macmillan pressed home the final scathing remark: "I feel sorry for him as he gropes about, abandoned by his old friends and colleagues-a shorn Samson surrounded by a bevy of prim and aging Delilahs." Labor's censure motion was defeated by a surprisingly large 70-vote margin...
...Protestant worshipers gathered in private homes, or in buildings that may show no sign that they are churches, to make their devotions' and give thanks for the prayers of their brethren in other lands. The Protestants of Spain, outnumbered by Roman Catholics 1,000 to 1, feel that they need all the prayers they...
...more deeply problematic nature is happening to the western legend. Good and Evil, it seems, are beginning to understand each other, to be reconciled to each other's existence. Often in the modern western a sudden sympathy flashes between hero and villain, as though somehow they feel themselves to be secret sharers in a larger identity. Often the hero cannot bring himself to kill the villain until fate forces his hand, and then he performs the act almost like a religious sacrifice (Shane...
...week's end police were admitting privately that "some of the lads swung when they should have nodded," and collegians were excusing the cops: "They're not of the higher intelligence groups, I feel." Alumni were telling each other that the St. Patrick's hoo-ha did not measure up to the 1919 battle between college boys and parading veterans of World War I. Students were not even very mad at their prexy any longer; Whitney Griswold, who promised to kick out students for any more bad behavior, finally admitted that both sides had cause for grievance...