Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty members are finding it just as much of an experience as the younger Americans. As one of the most renowned has said, "I am dealing here with a subject of which I have felt a part for many years, but I have been forced to present it in an entirely new way. As a result I have been working harder here than I ever expected to, but the effort has been incomparably rewarding...
...street felt let down. The fight fizzed out of him like the air from a punctured balloon. "Attlee missed the chance of a lifetime," said a furniture maker. "We know we are in a tough spot, so it's up to. him to take tough action. We would back him all right." Said a salesman: "Attlee's a good man, mind you, but we want more than that-someone with go in him." Many a Briton still agreed with the junior minister who said recently: "The sands are running out and our heads are still buried in them...
...surprise, parents of public-school pupils also began to write letters to newspapers. In a special poll, the Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger on it." The Mothers' Discussion Group agreed...
...Berkshire Music Center's energetic Opera Director Boris Goldovsky, Mozart's neglected opera had a modern message: man's struggle with vast natural forces. He also felt that "it is the responsibility of contemporary musicians, ' who are the trustees of the great composers, to resurrect [their works] to the best of their ability." Goldovsky streamlined the opera down to bearable length (2½ hours), straightened out some of the curves in its tortuous plot. Then he put a student cast and chamber orchestra to work...
...hrer's eyes" and two horoscopes were sent for-Hitler's and that of the German Republic. They predicted a change of fortune after a period of disaster. A few days later came news of Roosevelt's death. Reported a witness, Count Schwerin von Krosigk: "We felt the wings of the Angel of History rustle through the room. Could this be the long-desired change of fortune...