Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only 48 hours earlier, William Lyon Mackenzie King had stood before the National Liberal Federation in Ottawa and announced his long-awaited retirement (TIME, March 31). Party leader since 1919, and Prime Minister for two decades, Mackenzie King told his audience that he felt the weight of his 73 years. He asked the federation to call a national Liberal convention (probably in August) to choose his successor...
...something to remember. There was that terrible three weeks in the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether, the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...
Explosion Point. Brokers had felt sure that sooner or later the market would reflect fat earnings (which are generally continuing) with a healthy spurt. But last week's drop changed many minds or clouded the crystal ball completely. One expert, who glibly tosses off words like "velocity ratings," "gaps." "double tops," "recoil," etc. to explain the market, finally gave up. Said he: "Frankly, I don't know what's happening. I'm baffled...
Lassoing Director. There were a few rebuffs: touchy Poet Ezra Pound blew his top; and the Widow Bridges remarked delicately that "she felt that there were statements in [her husband's] philosophy which implied a fundamental opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets...
Though it was improbable that Britain could soon lead the way to the complete union that Dulles proposed, Bevin's announcement was a long first step in the right direction. It was bound to influence those who felt, like Dulles, that it was high time for Europe to make a start toward economic unity, at least. It was also the best possible answer to the harshest attack yet made...