Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some 4,000 newcomers, almost all of them blind, deaf, lame or incurably ill, were there to be healed. The self-styled healer: William Branham, a bald, narrow-shouldered, shiny-eyed Kentuckian and ex-power company lineman. As each patient walked or was carried past, Branham prayed over him, felt him to see if he vibrated with demons. When the last hallelujahs had died away and the collection had been taken, one young man announced that he had flung away his hearing...
...priests found Christianity making great headway in Japan, largely because of G.I.-Japanese postwar friendliness, plus General MacArthur's Christianization campaign ("You can't have democracy without Christianity"). Only in China did they find hostility to the U.S. in general. This, they felt, was not so much the result of Communist activity as the natural resentment of the Chinese at being dependent...
...wishful thinking. There is no question about who would wear the red, white, and so-forth if the committee which does such things made its choice now. As it stands now--as it has stood ever since 1936, the fate of the Crimson oarsmen lies under the battered, gray felt hat worn perennially by Coach Bolles...
This year's report went on to add that "it is felt that a student activities center would provide both the much-needed physical facilities, and an official encouragement--now lacking to some extent--to the formation and development of extra-curricular organizations...
...House committees of all seven Houses endorsed the center as a memorial, six of them unanimously. They felt the proposed center would "help the Houses immeasurably by relieving them of the need to provide meeting space for college organizations, thereby allowing the common rooms to be used entirely for House functions...