Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been, if nothing else, an unusual year for the Beantown Bombers, with none of the last-minute anguish that made Red Sox fans in 1978 feel like stockbrokers on Black Tuesday. This year the Sox booted it early, and as I watch their last game in Fenway, against the Toronto Blue Jays, they are twelve-and-one-half games out of first place in the American League East. Nobody knew how many games behind the Blue Jays are--nobody has the instruments to measure such distance...
...nobody gets too tense. The bridge game among the St. Elizabeth's parish ladies continues on the sidewalk. A red-and-white taxicab pulls up and, out of the back seat pops an entrepreneur. "$1.75 for sandwich and coffee," he shouts. "Profiteer," someone jeers. "Don't you feel guilty making money off the Pope's visit?" another asks, but obviously the answer is no because the sandwich man is enjoying himself no end. "I hope you get leprosy," Elkhorn's friend yells...
...around the White House driveway on weekdays, and logged longer distances on his Camp David weekends. Like many novice runners, Carter soon became addicted. Said he: "I start looking forward to it almost from the moment I get up. If I don't run, I don't feel exactly right." By early summer, Carter was averaging 40 to 50 miles a week, and with typical intensity and stubbornness, he kept trying to better his time. At first, he averaged 8½ min. per mile, but he now regularly finishes the distance in 7 min. Occasionally, he turns...
...crudeness and warmth; at the same time brutal and engaging, cunning and disarming. While he boasted of Soviet strength, one had the sense that he was not really all that sure of it. Having grown up in a backward society nearly overrun by Nazi invasion, he seemed to feel in his bones the vulnerability of his system. It is my nightmare that his successors, bred in more tranquil times and accustomed to modern technology and military strength, might be freer of self-doubt; with no such inferiority complex, they may believe their own boasts and, with a military establishment...
Said he: "If it has the feel of life in it, I will keep it going, even with losses. If it doesn...