Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the courtroom he stood around smiling but narrow-eyed, shaking hands and receiving the adulation of the party faithful. No matter whether he was acquitted or convicted this was the triumphant climax of a career of 20 years. Whatever he felt in his innermost heart, like his father, he kept his own counsel. At each court day's end, he stepped along the marble corridor, hulking and heavy-footed, walking down his own dark tunnel...
...Oregon and British Columbia, began to twitch. Seattle's 42-story L. C. Smith Tower and hundreds of lesser structures began to groan and sway. Automobiles waltzed crazily on highways. Bridges creaked. Chandeliers swung like pendulums. Dishes and bells set up a wild jangling. A million people simultaneously felt shallow-breathed fear...
Henry A. Wallace's 1948 running mate, Idaho's singing Senator Glen H. Taylor, decided that he was a Democrat after all. With an eye on next year's Democratic primary in Idaho, Taylor piously announced: "I never felt that I left the Democratic Party. I was just like a player that M-G-M loaned to another company...
...felt that the traditional scores for the play, composed by Henry Purcell and Thomas Augustan Arne, although musically above reproach, were more appropriate for an eighteenth century production of the Shakespearian tragicomedy...
...felt," said the committee's statement, "that to make permanent provision for such appearances would be a peculiarly fitting way of perpetuating his memory...