Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lines of the Song of Solomon: "The winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.'' Ike looked well and obviously felt well: for the next 30 minutes he staged a performance that turned out to be his best conference since his stroke...
...temper of the public as a whole is not that of a nation sliding into another depression." One-fourth of the families interviewed said they were "better off" than a year ago, one-half felt they were "about the same," and only one-fourth considered themselves "worse...
...After warming up with an easy 1,500-meter freestyle victory at the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships in New Haven, Australian Olympian Murray Rose, 18, felt so relaxed that he forgot to count the laps when he kicked off next night in the 22O-yd. grind. With only 20 yds. left to go, Murray, now a Southern California freshman, suddenly realized the race was almost over. He thrashed up to full speed, just managed to come up from third to touch out his countryman and collegemate, Jon Henricks. in a meet-record...
Little Moon's young Irish heroine, embroiled in the "troubles" of 1916-21, felt her faith in God shaken when the English occupiers killed her father, brother and betrothed. She sought refuge as a Roman Catholic Sister of Charity, was soon assigned to nurse the Englishmen who had destroyed her world. In a Dublin hospital she found another man whom she could have loved: a vehemently cynical British soldier, so badly wounded that death seemed sure to overtake him in his bitter atheism-and-her hope of finding her salvation by effecting...
Annapolisman Rickover denounced progressive education, which "makes its pernicious influence felt in the steady deterioration of the secondary school curricula, and overlong elementary schooling." His remedy: "Turn back to the home what is properly the function of the home, and permit the public schools to concentrate on what is properly their function-the education of young minds...