Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy's response? "There's this unfortunate notion that the Navy is the ogre in all this." One Navy spokesperson even explained (leaving out any expletives): "If that TV show had never been on the air, people wouldn't feel the way they do. Dolphins are cute. They're lovable...I wish we could use cows. It would probably be a lot easier...
Male athletes often feel compelled to prove their masculinity, often through extensive locker room talk about the other sex or casual derogatory references to the "fags" on the other team...
Although these "fag jokes" may not be intended as antagonistic to individual homosexuals or the gay community in general, imagine the pain they must cause closeted gays, who may feel compelled to laugh along with the banter for fear of standing alone in defense of gay rights...
Fedorov is far from it. Last year his restaurant earned a profit of 600,000 rubles on revenues of 2 million rubles. Some of Fedorov's fellow Soviet citizens feel threatened by his success. For example, he wants to buy a farm to ensure himself a supply of quality produce and meat. But fighting his way through a bureaucratic maze to get the requisite permits is a thankless task. "Rather than create opportunities for real competition," he says, "these ministries are trying to tie our hands. I go to the ministry, and they say what I want...
Most of us at Ogonyok feel that we are not alone, that what we are doing is important to those around us. This has made the magazine not just stronger but more self-confident. At the beginning of 1986 Ogonyok had fewer than 300,000 subscribers. By last January we had more than 3 million. Today it is virtually impossible to buy Ogonyok at the newsstand. Our print run is clearly not enough to satisfy demand, but official promises to allow us a larger circulation have so far not been realized. There is a very special feeling about being part...