Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Congress ratify the pact? The State Department was hoping that Congress still felt as it did last June, when by a 64-to-4 vote it passed the Vandenberg resolution, encouraging the President to negotiate with other Northern Atlantic nations. The pact would certainly preserve the right of Congress to declare...
...months before, Western Europeans had been in desperate fear of Soviet aggression. They felt then that a North Atlantic Alliance could not come fast enough. They were willing to make the national sacrifices required by Western Union. There was a sweeping urgency, then, in the idea that the West would have to become strong, stand up to Stalin-that Stalin would respect strength and keep the peace...
...conclusion, Fisher said, "had I felt guilty of any one charge levelled against me," he could not have kept up his sequence of wearying refutations. "I am convinced," he added, "that only a person who is certain of the justness of his position can stand up under 34 days of unjust and insincere attack. I have attempted to look upon this situation with a feeling of sympathy toward those men on the Council who hold their positions more important than integrity...
...future was something else. His own disciples had begun to criticize him. Nobody could forget that in the party's first long stretch underground (1936-45), the redoubtable chieftain had led his anti-Communist leftists from inside Peru without once being caught. But now, many Peruvians felt that it would be miraculous if he ever came back. Said an Aprista: "I don't think Haya killed Graña-but I believe Graña killed Haya...
...still had plenty to say about education; he acknowledged that he had not accomplished all that he wanted in his 13 years at Fordham. Thinking back on it, Father Gannon remarked that his assignment had been "interesting" and "constantly varied" but there had been drawbacks. He had felt "illiteracy climbing up my legs like gangrene," seen his own writing turn to "thin gruel." Moreover, there had been little time for reading, scarcely moments enough to read his priestly office...