Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the Communists in Foley Square, most of the U.S. seemed inclined to agree. As long as the U.S. felt the need to keep G-man Hoover checking up on its fellow citizens, the uneasy feeling was bound to persist. But without the assurance of the FBI's eternal vigilance, the U.S. might feel uneasier still...
...time or another, many a commercial pilot has felt the sweat of anxiety starting on his brow as he saw, off in the distance, a young fighter pilot climbing into the wild blue yonder with 2,000 h.p. in front of him and a good breakfast under his belt. Sometimes those fighter pilots experienced an exuberant urge for self-expression which could only be satisfied by a thunderous dive on a herd of cows, a pretty girl's house, or on a slow and whalelike commercial airliner...
...House Office Building. Coar, his wife and a staff of five are on the congressional payroll at salaries totaling $26,000 a year, plus $1 a year rental for Coar's $15,000 worth of recording equipment. The idea came to him, Coar says, because he felt that the press "ridiculed" members of Congress. "I thought Congressmen should tell in their own words what they were doing in Washington," he explains...
...again. The atom bomb changed his mind. As wartime head of the National Defense Research Committee, he was horrified at the scientific illiteracy around him. Some of his like-minded colleagues, like Chemist Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, decided to spread understanding by direct political lobbying. Conant felt that he should carry on his own crusade in the classroom...
There is hardly a science that has not felt the touch of AEC. The commission is working on new alloys and other materials for the atomic age. It is deep in cancer research. Its program of making and distributing isotopes, both radioactive and stable, has worked a genuine revolution in U.S. science...