Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trap. For a long time they had been planning to trap someone of Wallace's stature, but they were not sure just who the quarry would be. They began in Sidney Hillman's C.I.O.-P.A.C., whose simple objective was to make labor's influence felt in the Democratic Party. But the secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers...
...into position for the picture, she patted its head, stroked its back, quietly coaxed it to extend its hood. As the cobra's head began to bob rhythmically back & forth, Mrs. Wiley felt suddenly that it was not responding well. "It's getting nervous," she said. "I'd better put it away." As she reached for it, the cobra struck...
...already feeling the effects of competition and the buyers' market. With the backlog in trucks about gone, profits fell for such smaller producers as Mack Trucks (down 50%) and Autocar (down 90%). Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's half-year profits dropped more than 50%. Bendix Home Appliances also felt a sag in sales, reporting a profit of $900,550 for the second quarter v. $2,565,-208 for the corresponding period last year. Profits of shoe companies were down; International Shoe...
...began to dictate a novel to Tatyana, speaking the words so "unevenly and hurriedly" that she felt she was "doing something immodest" in hearing them. In the winter of 1864 he nervously read the beginning of the novel, War and Peace, aloud to a few friends; soon after, the first section appeared in the magazine Russky Vestnik, under the title 1805. "[It] still seems a little weak," said Author Tolstoy apologetically. "It will probably go unnoticed...
...scars. Civitavecchia (the port for Rome) appeared to have been "eaten and regurgitated by mastodons." Italian squalor was worsened by the morbid excitement it seemed to arouse in visiting foreigners, who, perhaps "a little stifled by ... civilization . . . when they saw a [place] that had been smashed into temporary primitiveness" felt an animal instinct "to leap into it, as though into a bath...