Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. citizen felt as though he had just walked out of a triple horror feature, and had found the sun shining and the streets crowded with sunny people. As spring merged into summer the world seemed to have become, at least for the present, an astonishingly cheerful place...
...normal circumstances," he cabled, "I should respond at once . . . But my return at this time, however sincere its purpose, would be understood and condemned by many as politically inspired ... It would be peculiarly repugnant to. me to have it felt that I sought to capitalize to political advantage, as many have frankly urged, the public good will which might manifest itself upon my first return to American soil . . . For such good will would find its inspiration in the victory which crowned our Pacific war effort to which countless gallant Americans, living and dead, contributed . . . Usurpation of such good will...
...came to New York because he had no relatives there. "I wanted to commit sins if I felt like it," he says. He was 20, a hefty, blue-eyed, black-haired youth with $25 in his pocket. He looked up with satisfaction at the "buildings falling all over themselves," but was afraid to get into the subway. Somebody had told him that the trains stopped for only one minute, and he was afraid they would run off and leave him in some hole in the ground...
...Louis, in the $30,000 Professional Golfers Association championship, cool Ben Hogan systematically went about chopping Mike Turnesa to pieces in the final. Hogan won 7-&-6, collected first prize ($3,500) and left for Fort Worth with a motorcycle escort sendoff. The way he felt about the P.G.A.: "You have to finish first or second to make it worth the effort and then you're dead for weeks afterwards...
...came back again to win the seat twice, to be Congressman from another district five times, and later to become New York City's mayor for a record-breaking twelve years. His posthumous autobiography, The Making of an Insurgent, plainly reflects the weariness he must have felt as he and Writer M. R. Werner knocked it together last year during the final months of La Guardia's fatal illness (cancer). It covers the first 37 years of his life (1882-1919), from the childhood on Army posts (his Italian immigrant father was a bandmaster) through his early congressional...