Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more I hear about such natural disasters, the more helpless I feel. There hasn't been such a slew of tragedies holding the media's attention since the big disaster movie boom of the 1970s when sharks, infernos and ship wrecks covered the movie ad pages. Perhaps the fact that so many natural disasters occurred within one short time period is just some sort of bad coincidence. But the fact that so many of these disasters are considered worst-evers in their categories probably has a more real-world cause...
...School officials said they feel no unease about having their top faculty members--like Thornburgh--leave the school for Washington. They said it is to the school's advantage to have professors who leave for a few years because their experience can serve to make them better professors when they come back...
...very positive thinkers," said Hanson's wife, Co-Master Cynthia R. Hanson. "We feel that we have the financial backing, but most of all the moral support and belief that Dudley House is important and vital to the life of the University. Both President Bok and Dean Jewett have expressed that," she said...
...first surprise upon landing in this endlessly rebuilt metropolis, 594 years old and as new as just now, is its distinctly human scale. Today roughly a quarter of the republic's 41 million people live in the city whose very name means capital, yet the feel of the place is oddly uncongested. Here is not just another high-rising Asian metropolis, like Hong Kong or Singapore or Taipei, but a compact and manageable place of little lanes and neighborhood stores, of tree-lined streets given a sense of space and rough lyricism by the granite hills that surround them. Nature...
Parts of Seoul, inevitably, feel like suburbs of America. The streets of Itaewon, not far from the Yongsan garrison, are decorated in the U.S. Army- surplus style common to base cities around the world: country-and-western bars called Bonanza and Tennessee, the Las Vegas disco, a spit-and-polish row of Pizza Hut, Pizza Inn and Shakey's. And where there are servicemen, of course, there are service-industry women: in certain hands, Seoul's rowdiness can turn to raunchiness. The body trade flourishes in the G.I. bars of Itaewon, and the city's ubiquitous barbershops have little...