Word: feels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With bullets of prejudgment, pretrial, and preconviction over an issue that, although tragic, would have normally rated two paragraphs on page 12, Edward Kennedy, like his brothers, has been assassinated. I for one feel that one of the few hopes of the American political future has been garroted, unfairly, by the iron collar of sensationalism-at-all-costs. K. M. FOSTER San Francisco...
...just two minutes past touchdown on the moon's surface [July 25]. It is night in my country-and I sit alone, overwhelmed by this fantastic feat. It is great to be alive tonight. I cannot explain what I feel-a sort of pride in this human achievement...
Perhaps the most critical judgments of Kennedy's behavior in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne came from the nation's editorial writers and columnists. Many editorialists agreed with the Tulsa World, which wrote: "We can honestly feel for the Senator in his time of terrible anguish, but our Presidents must be elected for their reliable strengths, not out of sympathy for their misfortunes." The essence, said the New York Post's Max Lerner, was that "at a crisis moment in his life, when another human life was at stake, Senator Kennedy was either thrown into confusion...
...national poll for TIME, Louis Harris found that a substantial majority of Americans interviewed (68%) feel that "it is unfair to be critical of the way Senator Kennedy reacted to the accident, because the same thing could have happened to anyone." By 58% to 30%, the public felt that "he has suffered and been punished and should be given the benefit of the doubt." Yet, by 44% to 36%, a plurality thinks that Kennedy has failed to "tell the real truth...
...truth, Chekhov did not feel any strong inner drive to write for the theatre. He composed his plays only when he felt they had a good chance of imminent performance; and, furthermore, he wrote his parts for specific players--an idea that finds few advocates today, although it is precisely what Shakespeare had done. None of Chekhov's plays was fully understood and appreciated at its first performance, and he was repeatedly plagued with self-doubts. On occasion he vowed never to bother with the stage again. And he got into heated interpretational conflicts with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko...