Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even better indication of how chesty the Reds felt became apparent, later in the week, in Czechoslovakia. It was clear that the Russians, while screaming about a Western Bloc, had completed an Eastern Bloc of their own. Did the West have anything like an equivalent? Certainly the Marshall Plan would, by itself, create no Western Bloc. U.S. aid aimed at giving Europe enough economic stability to work out its own politics in friendly cooperation. It put economics first...
...London, Cabbie Elmo Poluck felt a sharp jolt from behind, climbed out to pay his respects to the other driver. "What's your name and address?" he demanded. The embarrassed reply: the Duke of Edinburgh. "Then," Poluck reported, "something inside me brain clicked, and I looked up and said, 'Oh, oh, so it is!' Then I lost my equilibrium. ... I saw the Princess smiling inside the car, so I raised my hat to her and she nodded back. Then they drove away...
Trigger-tempered Max Hirsch, 68, a horse trainer by trade, said he wasn't interested in the $50,000 prize money. He just wanted to beat "that horse." He felt so strongly about Armed, 1947's horse of the year, that he couldn't even mention his name. Max had been maneuvered into running his Assault against Armed one day last September when Assault had "only three legs...
...correspondents felt that ex-General Frayne Baker, MacArthur's overzealous P.R.O., was to blame for a lot of the pushing around they had endured. Last week, Baker took his time about forwarding the complaints to the boss; at week's end there had been no reply from MacArthur...
Critics struggled for just the right words. One thought that Lionel Barrymore's etchings (Purdy's Basin and San Pedro) had a "professional touch." The gallery director felt obliged to say that Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien "has definite promise. . . . There's an oriental simplicity about her watercolor, Autumn Leaves, which many artists work for years to capture." One critic summed up: "I hate to hurt their feelings, but almost all of the work ... is fairly...