Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first stagy gesture came almost as soon as she was seated-she tugged at her attorney's sleeve and whispered importantly, her head held to one side with a stiff and stilted coquettishness. Watching her, many a spectator felt that her affected posturing explained the things that had happened to Mildred Gillars almost as well as the testimony...
...Shops on Lantern Street were crammed with New Year's lanterns-paper lions, brilliant green rabbits, yellow tigers. For the children, there were toy swords and whistling yo-yos. "I don't know if people will have money to buy them all," said one shopkeeper, "but we felt like making them anyway. We have peace...
...explained that he was continuing the medical examination to clear up several loose ends, but other than that he would make no definite statement. At present, most widely felt medical opinion is that some form of elusive accidental poisoning was responsible...
...Long Island plot 20 miles from Manhattan, Builders Levitt & Sons put up a trim two-bedroom bungalow. Like other U.S. builders, they knew a slump had curbed real estate sales; many a new house was going begging because the price was too high. But Bill Levitt felt sure there were plenty of buyers, if the house -and price-were right...
...Science Council was not organized nor even blueprinted by the U.S. occupation. It is an outgrowth of the dissatisfaction which Japanese scientists have felt toward the stiffly hierarchical science bodies inherited from imperial Japan. In the early days of the occupation, Japanese scientists, hungry for outside news and without faith in themselves, came timidly to the American authorities to ask advice. They got the minimum. "Form a liaison group," said SCAP's scientific division, "so we can talk intelligently...