Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrestled with his soul. The story around Washington was that he went to his old boss, George Marshall, about three months ago. The pressure for his candidacy had built up until it was almost irresistible. Ike felt that he would have to accept the call. But to the rigid and uncompromising Marshall, such an act on the part of a fellow Army officer would be a deed of disloyalty to their commander in chief, Harry Truman-who also wanted the job. Ike thought it over for 24 hours and went in to see the President through a side door...
...applicants, three young men will be chosen to man the first Mars-bound ship. Vladimir will be one. "Before starting," he writes, "I peruse my diaries and see how happy were my years of study and research which led to this interplanetary trip. In our collective efforts, I never felt the loneliness experienced by scientists in capitalist countries...
...Dail last week, up stood fiery young Deputy Con Lehane of Dublin. He asked Prime Minister John A. Costello if he was aware how the nation felt about having a "foreign monarch" on the Leinster House lawn. Costello made a careful reply: the statue would soon be removed; the deputies needed more room to park their cars. It was anticipated, he said, that the removal would begin this month...
...flattened city fire crept steadily. People tossed bundles of bedding and clothes out of windows and doors. Men, women & children picked their way through the ruins of houses, keeping their faces turned always toward the fire, moving more quickly when they saw the nearness of its creeping advance and felt its hot wind...
...week, now 70, Methodist Frank C. Goodman retired as executive secretary of the Federal Council of Churches' department of religious radio. The sponsor of some 12,000 network and 10,000 local radio programs, Dr. Goodman has never once spoken over the air. Said he last week: "I felt that I was not qualified to speak on religious subjects...