Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ensconced in the high-backed chair on the dais, blinking down on excited Senators, Barkley remarked: "I feel like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he felt. He said if it weren't for the honor of the thing, he'd just as soon walk." He applied himself then to the South's ingenious entanglement, which was hard going even for sea lawyers...
...since 1930 had Texans felt the need for a real anti-lynch law. That year a mob in Sherman, Tex. hanged a Negro accused of rape, and while its fury was still up, set fire to Negro business buildings in the town. The fire got out of hand, destroyed a good part of the white folks' downtown district too, including the courthouse. It was the last big mob lynching in Texas' violent history (score: 551 lynchings). Now that President Truman was trying to impose an anti-lynch law on the South, Texans got to thinking again of passing...
...this leaves Bill Curwen stroking the second boat, with his Varsity cohorts Ted Reynolds and Don Felt behind him at seven and four, respectively. Bob Taggart, who did a short tour of duty with the Varsity early last spring during Jud Gale's absence is at five, with two other Jayvees, Nat Ober and Lou Cox, at three and bow. Ham Fish, up from last year's combination boat, and sophomore Ken Keniston round out the roster...
...felt it was unfair for everyone from the members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Relief Committee to Wallace voters to be termed "un-American and subversive" by Attorney General Tom Clark...
...exactly half were Republicans. Most of the GOP bloc was from the conservative Mid-West, led by Arthur Vandenberg. The issue, as Vandenberg put it, was not civil rights. The Republicans indeed clasped these rights to their bosoms many years ago. Vandenberg disagreed with Barkley on principle; he just felt that the Parliamentary rule in question did not apply to debate on a motion to introduce a measure. To pretend that it did, Vandenberg said, would be tainting the worthy end of civil rights by using unwholesome means...