Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general reaction to the plan was understandably cool. Some of the U.S. press felt that the Quakers, in their earnest search for a true realism based on the possibility of evoking the goodness in man, had been unrealistically premature. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "All men are not yet Quakers; if they were, we might more easily repose our faith in one another's virtue and good will. In the meantime, we seem fated to base our national policies on the sorrowful facts that it takes one to make a war, two to make a peace...
...Roman Catholics have long felt the need for a central agency where the church could express its official views on social, economic and moral questions. Rather than set up a new agency, they decided on the reorganization of an old one: the ten-year-old bureau of information of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington...
...Sunday newspaper, The People? Didn't she know that he had already sold exclusive rights to his own story ("I Was a Vampire") to News of the World? Killer Haigh, who had signed the ?5,000 ($20,000) contract months ago to get the money for his defense, felt honor-bound to fulfill...
...first-half earnings began to come in, they showed the expected drop, in profits from 1948, when inflated prices were at their peak. But they still looked healthy. The General Electric Co., which had been among the first big companies to cut prices and had already felt the sales slump in household appliances, was possibly a bellwether of how good "normal" might be. G.E.'s President Charles Wilson reported a second-quarter net of $19.8 million, down 32% from the same 1948 period. However, profit was more than 100% above G.E.'s earnings of ten years...
...Emily." She turned her head . . . towards him helplessly . . . Dorset said in his sultry voice, his voice of a purring tiger: "I am going to kiss you, Emily. Do you mind?" She felt herself dissolving . . . His eyes, clear and ice-grey between their long lashes, were full of moonlight...