Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Khaki Shirts & Candor. They landed at Washington's National Airport wearing black suits, khaki Army shirts, tan Army shoes, bluish felt hats and the look of men who will not be taken in by city slickers. They smiled and nodded happily when they were told to form their own opinions and to have no fear of frankness, but it soon developed that the advice was unnecessary. They were men of imposing candor...
...straightened it all out was smart, amiable August Scholle, 44, longtime president of the State C.I.O. Council, and one of Walter Reuther's close friends. His influence was soon felt. A committee of properly indoctrinated Democrats last week held a state convention at Grand Rapids...
Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...rights of individuals testifying before congressional probes were the chief concern of the speakers. All felt that witnesses have rights which must be protected but that the welfare of the country stood above anyone's individual rights...
Coach Jack Barnaby has never felt that the 1948 contest was conclusive, since Army won the crucial sets by only one or two points...