Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over all, I felt highly encouraged by what I saw. I believe Europe has a real chance now. The French, unlike a year ago, are now going strong. For one thing, they're eating better-self-sufficiency in food is a priceless advantage in the current crisis. They may have more Communist trouble, but it looks like they will be able to take care of it. The Dutch, too, are on the road back -when even conservative Dutch officialdom admits that things are better, they're better...
...Kansas City, the temperature climbed to 90 degrees, in Boston to 96.2, in Dallas to 98, in El Paso to 103. With the end of the Democratic Convention, and a clear choice of candidates before them, most citizens felt surfeited with politics and the vehement sound of political oratory...
Alben Barkley had not always felt that close to Harry Truman. In the last three years, as Truman's Senate leader, he was often caught flatfooted by Administration proposals of which he had had no previous notice. On one such occasion he angrily told a White House aide: "This is like playing catcher in a night ball game. I not only am not getting the signals, but someone actually turns out the lights when the ball is tossed...
...government prepared a speedy trial for Assassin Pallante, jailed in Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven) prison. In the Policlinico, 55-year-old Togliatti contracted pneumonia, but after massive doses of penicillin (from the U.S.) he felt well enough to ask for a newspaper. He wanted to know how Italy's star rider was doing in France's cross-country bicycle race, the Tour de France...
...honoring a composer who could be there, many a Hungarian felt as if he were also paying respect to another composer who couldn't. Wrote one critic: "We are able to honor Kodály in his lifetime-which, sadly, we were unable to do for Bartók." (Bartók died, neglected, in New York City...