Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he was offered the new job, able Ralph Bunche told a friend how he felt about Washington. "Frankly," he said, "it's a Jim Crow town and I wouldn't relish exposing my family to it again...
...Johnson's legal mind there seemed to be a slight, nagging doubt about the propriety of a shift from Democratic moneyman to Secretary of Defense. Not long ago he told a few friends of his talk with Harry Truman. "I told the President," Johnson explained, "that I felt I had disqualified myself for any federal appointment." But Forrestal and the President "insisted" and "I had no choice ... I accepted the position, tough as I knew it was going...
...White House reporters Bunche gave two tactful reasons: he felt his U.N. job (as director of the trusteeship department) was important; he could not afford to take a salary cut from his tax-free $14,000 at U.N. to a taxable $10,000 as an Assistant Secretary of State...
...West was not sanguine that Russia would accept this position. It expected no dramatic general settlement. But it felt reasonably sure that the Russians wanted a limited agreement. If so, at what point...
...hard for a writer in the Western tradition to understand the atmosphere of Russia," admitted Novelist Thomas Mann, "hard for him to understand a man like Shostakovich kneeling down before the authorities. And yet, after all, in the Middle Ages artists lived under the dogma of the church and felt relatively free. It is possible-is it possible?-for an artist to function within a frame of philosophy .whose limits cannot be transcended ... I don't know...