Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it was blonde Bettye Mills's Stork Club, located on a lurid strip of honky-tonks known as The Block. Bettye not only serves drinks, she has strippers for entertainment. And for free she tosses the mob her garter every night. Such goings-on, Sherm felt, would "impair and cause severe damage" to his reputation...
...attack, Marshall chose Russia's refusal to say clearly what she considered to be "German assets in Austria." The Potsdam conference of July 1945 agreed that Russia could have German assets in Austria. For two years the Red Army has been seizing as German assets anything it felt like, without giving the Allies a specific list of properties. Some of the properties grabbed by the Russians as German assets really belong to Austrians, in the U.S.-British view. Said Marshall: "Exactly what is it the Soviet Union wants from Austria? What properties, interests or values? . . . Both the Austrian people...
Last summer the U.S., like a rather heavy uncle, felt obliged to stop Britain's spending money. Washington froze the last $400 million on the 1946 loan (all that was left of the original $3,750 million) because the British had not been able to keep sterling freely convertible. Last week Washington unfroze the $400 million...
...stage of cancer, beyond help from any standard treatment. Five of the 20 died in spite of the new drug. But in every case the drug had dramatically stopped the pain and at least made the patients feel healthy and cheerful. One patient, nine hours before he died, had felt so well that he demanded to be sent home...
...Among creative writers, a couple of "borderline cases" cropped up. Samuel Johnson had hallucinations and delusions (e.g., he believed that eating an apple would make him drunk). When he felt his "madness" coming on, Johnson had his housekeeper lock him in his room and sometimes beat him. Southey, a highly nervous type, had a breakdown...