Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resembled this garden. G.I.s living in my barracks walked through it to reach the service club. On the rainy, magic-like mornings of spring and summer, the spot was like another world. Most of us will never see Japan again, and many thousands of veterans, I'll wager, felt a lump in the throat while looking at your Art section...
...lost to Purtell in 1952, has been campaigning for six months, refused to be budged by Bowles's announcement because the campaign "will not affect our personal friendship in any way." Also in the running: former U.S. Representative Thomas J. Dodd, who tried for the Senate in 1956, felt that the state machine failed to back him, this year has virtually sewed up his own powerful bailiwick of Hartford County (pop. 619,000) and much organizational support, may well mow down both Benton and Bowles...
...Perez, Castro's second in command, had come personally to apologize for the inconvenience. The rebels even supplied a radio so that Fangio might listen to the race. But he preferred not to. "I became a little sentimental," he said. "I did not want to listen because I felt nostalgic." Yet Fangio was also fearful that his life was endangered, not by his abductors but by a clash that might come at any moment between them and the police...
...fascinated the BBC program director that the 15-minute show was expanded to 30 minutes on the spot. It was on a BBC panel show that Ustinov gave first utterance to the comic title for a traveling vaudeville team, "Bulge and Khrush." Like everything else, TV itself has felt his witty sting. Sample: "Crusty old politicians are now told how to put things across on TV. And the more charming they are, the less you believe ... I still remember Macmillan on TV last year watching the camera lens as if it were a cobra and appealing to the nation...
...Burnett was not satisfied, t coveted a big auto account because "the industry hasn't been doing a very good job of selling itself to the public, and we felt a lot of new images could be built. He started a campaign of "systematic exposure," put ads in Detroit newspapers announcing his intention to get ah auto account, sent his executives up and down the industry extolling Burnett's services and facilities...