Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fact was that Bourguiba's tough talk seemed primarily designed to impress his countrymen. Having unwisely led his people to assume that all French forces would be out of Tunisia by March 20, Bourguiba now apparently felt obliged to make a dramatic gesture to direct popular attention from the fact that the French have not budged. But scarcely had he delivered his face-saving blast when Tunisian diplomats in Washington hustled around to the State Department to explain that his speech did not really mean what it seemed to mean...
...seeing everyone from the ruling junta to industrial and political leaders, the U.S. mission gave Venezuelans a chance to be heard as well as to be persuaded. Nonetheless, as the mission left the government felt obliged to say that it still opposes all restrictions. The talks will continue later in Washington...
...which freedom ceases to have much value-the gift of privacy. Give me a chance-a fair chance-to start life anew." Then he answered a few questions about his $10-a-month lab technician's job in a Puerto Rican hospital, grimly commented when asked if he felt free: "I feel hemmed in." With a posse of reporters yelping at their heels, Leopold and lawyer hopped into a rented car and dashed off toward Chicago. New to high-speed driving, Leopold, a diabetic, stopped six times en route, vomited on roadside grass as cameras clicked. Later, taut-nerved...
...bright weeknightly answer to late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped Dolores ("Dody") Martha Goodman, "aged 29" (real age: 43). By last week, seven months later, the comedienne that Jack built had "disenchanted" her creator, and Paar felt less a Pygmalion than a Frankenstein. "Sweet little Midwestern Dody," he snorted. "Brother! And we did it-we made...
...supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told you not to talk about that.") When Paar appeared with a new toupee, Dody hit the vulnerable spot: "Don't you look different tonight, Jack?" Once when Jack felt compelled to call Dody down for being late to rehearsal, she rushed up to him in tears and cried: "Why won't you talk to me, Jack? Why do you hate...