Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comical. Some Congressmen felt uneasy over having to repudiate Forrestal. But they blamed the National Defense office for the situation more than they blamed themselves. Said Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.: "No satisfactory method at present exists to resolve the differences between the armed services and to produce an intelligent and integrated plan . . . The Secretary of Defense, although an extremely competent official, is so lacking in professional help that he cannot possibly resolve the differences. What happens? The controversy is passed on to Congress and we here are thus required to resolve a technical dispute between professionals...
...partisans in Italy. Later, he described his adventures with almost boyish enthusiasm ("One girl in particular will always remain in my memory . . . She was a tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes . . . as brave and dangerous as a tigress and was completely devoted to the British company . . ."). He felt lost when peace came. "I always expected to be killed in battle," he said. "Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate...
Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
Many a Bostonian who has no love for Dumaine was on his side in the fight. They felt that the New York interests (insurance) which had dominated the railroad had given Boston the short end of :he New Haven's business. Lately, South Shore commuters and Cape Codders have been fighting mad over the New Haven's plan to stop passenger service on its subsidiary, the Old Colony Railroad, the only railroad to the Cape. Shrewd Frederic Dumaine said that if he won the New Haven he would try to keep the Old Colony running...
With these signatures crossed out, the petition then had only 17 signers, three short of the required 20. The invalidated signatures were from 'Cliffedwellers who felt that the AYD ought to be permitted to operate at Radcliffe even though they did not wish to join...