Word: felt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appalled that 823 of your readers felt it was their place to pass judgment on Senator Kennedy's action. Perhaps your readers have never experienced an emotion called shock. It is not the place of one human being to judge what degree of shock another should or can experience, or to judge what the response to an unexpected, tragic situation will...
...predecessor stood smiling, felt hat in hand, looking a little dazed in the brilliant California sun, but pleased as well. As reporters and photographers gathered round to congratulate Johnson on his birthday, Nixon turned to one and said admiriigly: "He doesn't look that old, does he?" Then they were off in a motorcade of golf carts. As the party split, with Nixon and Johnson heading for the executive-office complex and the rest turning off to the presidential villa, Nixon called to Luci: "You can use the pool if you want. And my surfboard. I never use that...
...grassy savannah meets the tropical forest, that the clash between the two worlds has been bloodiest. Africa's largest country in terms of area, the Sudan is dominated by the 9,000,000 Arabs of the north; the south's 4,000,000 blacks have long felt ignored by the Moslem politicians in Khartoum. In 1955, a year before the Sudan achieved independence, black soldiers mutinied in Torit, slaughtering 78 Arab officers. The terror had begun. Villages were harassed by the army and by rebels in turn; thousands of tribesmen were killed. Refugees flocked south into Uganda...
...earned him $528,000, and the net this year should be at least as great. But now the Duke is also the Prince of Wales, a title that carries a certain noblesse oblige. So Charles has asked that half his ducal revenues be turned over to the government. "He felt he wanted to make a gesture of this sort," said a palace spokesman. But the troubled Exchequer will get no great boost from the gift, which comes on Nov. 14, Charles' 21st birthday. While Charles was a minor, most of the ducal income was used to help pay Queen...
Fallen Among Fabians. As Shaw tells it, his socialist faith began as a personal thing - a bitterness against a class system that he felt at the patched seat of his pants. He writes of his Dublin boyhood as that of "a penniless snob." But if his poverty denied him the class privilege of a university education, it gave him great freedom of mind. He could be depended upon to rush in where pedants feared to tread. At the drop of a bourgeois top hat, he would discourse on Moses or municipal drains, on Marx or Michelangelo. Browbeating the Church...