Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waters' methods "in legislative hearings and from the floor of the Senate," but "no previous Commissioner has dared to differ with Dr. Van Waters. Even members of the legislature kowtow to her." LePresti's interest in Framingham was hardly limited to an investigation of the suicide. He felt that the Reformatory was a sinkhole of immorality and favoritism, and he was not reticent in telling readers of the American about...
...subordinates take an oath of office. One inmate had possessed a key in violation of the law, although testimony brought out the fact that she was working in apart of the institution where she needed the key in order to got into the bathroom. But the Commissioner evidently felt that he did have "just cause" for dismissing Dr. Van Waters. At the end of the hearing, he dropped only a few of his charges...
Many musicians felt it was just as well; it would hardly have been a happy affair. Said one: "Everybody feels under suspicion . . . There is very little conversation ... It's frozen the situation...
...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
...style* of Eimi (pronounced ay-me-"I am," in Greek) has become slightly more familiar; it offers no real trouble to an attentive reader, and on occasion adds to the sense of immediacy. On the other hand, Cummings' point of view, his simple reliance on what he himself felt, saw and heard, is rarer than ever-at least among travelers permitted to make the same trip nowadays...