Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healthy side, Acheson had helped polish the final draft of the North Atlantic pact. It now pledged the U.S. to defend Western Europe with armed force, if necessary-reserving to the U.S. the right to determine when such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated...
...means the death of the government." After an hour and a quarter of it, Acheson's icy diplomatic composure failed him. His face flamed, then whitened. He picked up his papers, stuffed them into his case and snapped: "We are not getting anywhere." That was how the Republicans felt about...
...Everybody knows," said a grizzled party worker at Labor headquarters, "that Ebbw Vale will vote Labor and that Torquay will vote Tory. It's the doubtfuls like Hammersmith that'll decide the general election." The Tories felt much the same. "Labor got nearly 12 million votes in 1945," said one of them. "We got nearly 10 million. A million of the 'floating' vote in the next election could turn the tide in our favor . . . That's why Hammersmith is important...
...seems to have seen a lot of influential people, located the pre-war polo coach, Col. C.E. Sargent, and lined up the use of the Dedham Polo and Country Club. All that was needed was $3000, and nobody felt like giving...
...addition to favoring a survey, the 2582 students voting approved of nutritional variety in College food, and felt, by a small majority, that foods in individual meals went well together...