Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This request is founded upon a principle which I have always considered as resulting from the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution of the United States. While holding an employment in the public service, I have always felt myself interdicted from the acceptance of any present of value...
Both Miss Fremd and Researcher Marcia Houston, who assisted her, learned to admire Lisa greatly; during the sweltering summer days, when they both felt limp as dishrags, Lisa always managed to look as cool and beautiful as a fashion...
...rest cure, Prime Minister Clement Attlee was left alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...
...American League, the New York Yankees felt more & more like the defenders of Thermopylae. After leading the league all season with the help of pitching, a lot of team courage and the wiles of Manager Casey Stengel, they were looking like warriors who were about to drop their blunted swords. They blew a seven-run lead to the inept Chicago White Sox to lose, 10-9, threw away another game to the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight...
...could tell, the weather did not turn suddenly worse in the third inning; it just got slowly darker until by 5:15 you could see virtually nothing. Once the game started, the umpires also had a sort of moral obligation to continue play. They felt five innings could be played, and they were right...