Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Load. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman, the man who never wanted to be President, confided to reporters: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night." In 1948, the load was bigger. But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him. He had the air of a man who felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million...
...Harry le Souriant." Abroad, Harry Truman's victory had raised spirits and stilled fears. Europe felt new confidence that the strong hand of the U.S. would continue to bear it up. To the French, the victory of "Harry le souriant' (smiling Harry) meant that the U.S. people had moved closer to them in spirit. In Greece, Athenian grey-marketeers renamed the street where they sell U.S. goods "Uncle Harry Street." Said a Tel Aviv newspaperman: "He is a simple human being, a man of the people. We would rather trust our fate to him than to the cool...
Public Servant. Duggan had been in ill health. The family said that he was overworked, had once suffered from ulcers, and still had a weak stomach; he sometimes felt nausea and the need for fresh air. Furthermore, he had not yet fully recovered from a delicate operation for the removal of a spinal disc performed last fall...
...after the execution, many Japanese went to shrines to pray. It was hard for a Westerner to learn what they really felt. Some said the Japanese were not praying for the dead war lords, but for peace in the world. It was no less difficult to learn the final attitudes of the condemned. Tojo left a poem...
...British spokesmen, though careful to avoid anything that sounded like condemnation of the Dutch, were quite clearly dismayed. They felt that unilateral military action by the Dutch was a slap in the face not only to the United Nations, but to hundreds of millions of Asiatics who expected the West to abjure all remnants of old-style colonial rule. Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India promptly reacted as had been expected; he denounced the Dutch attack as imperialism...