Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower has long made clear his overall ideas. Said he in 1956: "Unless I felt absolutely up to the performance of the duties of the Presidency, the second that I didn't, I would no longer be there in the job." But the U.S. Constitution raises problems that the President, with the best of intentions, cannot necessarily solve alone. It provides (Article II, Section 1. Clause 6): "In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve...
Barely thawed out from a five-month antarctic expedition. Australian-born Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins felt it was time to leave New York and to head for his Montrose, Pa. home. Lady Wilkins put off the new expedition, objected that Montrose was too cold and too bogged down in snow, revealed that her bearded husband, who has been shuttling between the North and South Poles since 1913. "doesn't like cold weather and never...
...place reserved "for students only." Once a porter tried to bar him from an examination, gruffly told him to act his age when McNair protested that he was an undergraduate. His classmates opened and closed doors for him, insisted on calling him "sir." His professors felt they might never get used to having that grey-haired old gentleman around...
Without exception, the girls felt worthless and insecure. Though they paraded in mink coats and made a point of being seen riding in Cadillacs from expensive apartments in the best parts of town, they were forever afraid that the world was ready to laugh at them. To dull their anxiety they sought relief in drink (though none was technically an alcoholic); 15 used marijuana, and six took to heroin. Said one: "Being a call girl helped me overcome my inferiority complex. I used to feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want...
...Frisk. In Manhattan, Louis Rivkin, part owner of a Broadway clothing shop, measured a man for a suit, felt a bulge in his hip pocket, remarked,"You've got a gun in there, haven't you?", lost $900 and eight suits...