Word: felt
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...orphan, Frances was adopted at 14 months and reared in Larchmont, N.Y. When she was eleven, her father committed suicide after losing all his money in the Depression. Frances felt that her mother, a beauty of German Jewish origin with a keen sense of high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that...
Edwards is not alone in his concerns. Several talk hosts have opted out of the Exxon boycott ("We felt that cutting up credit cards hurts the local guys running the gas station," says Steve Cochran, of Minneapolis' KDWB-FM). Others oppose efforts to organize radio hosts nationwide. "All the bad it can do outweighs the good it can do," says talk-show veteran Larry King. A number of prominent talk hosts are staying away from the convention being organized by Jerry Williams, and the management of New York City's WABC-AM has forbidden its employees to attend. "We feel...
...last spring at Harvard found that 59 percent of students responding said they had one to four drinks when they drink. Twenty-one percent report having five to nine drinks at a time, while 3 percent have 10 or more. The survey found that 29 percent of those responding felt that Harvard students drink too much...
...thing, I got a pretty good course in comparative religion -- all based on xenophobia. And since I felt on the fringe anyway, people's approval never mattered to me much. In fact, I thought it was my God-given mission to shock and upset people. I was always smart. I always knew what to say. When I was eight, I'd go around to churches talking about being a Mormon and a Jew. They call it manipulation when women do it. With men, they call it will...
Gaddafi, who put $10 million in trust to fund the award, had no say in choosing the winner. Swiss Socialist Deputy Jean Ziegler, a member of the jury that selected Mandela, said "ironclad guarantees" assured that Tripoli's influence would not be felt in Geneva. Nonetheless, human rights activists were clearly worried about the new philanthropist. Said an official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: "If the jury would consider people like Salman Rushdie, it would give more credibility to its independence...