Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better last week than United Auto Workers' Political Action Committeeman Willoughby Abner, who got thrown out as president of the booming (13,300 members) Chicago chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. because he picked a personal fight with Dawson. A year ago Abner sensed that many a Chicago Negro felt Dawson was wrong in helping work out a compromise civil rights plank at the Democratic National Convention. Abner persuaded South Side Negroes (but not enough) to cut Dawson in the November election, began to build a U.A.W.-weighted political organization in Dawson's practically private First District. Accepting the vendetta...
...small crowd of SHAPE personnel and their families. Said he: "I came out here because of a special kind of sickness, one that afflicts the aged and the young-homesickness. I must acknowledge that after 40 years of wearing a uniform it would be strange if I felt quite as natural with my civilian hat as I did with my military cap. And I want to indulge for just a moment this feeling of homesickness, the fun of going and seeing some of the people of SHAPE [who are] carrying the same mission, doing the same job that...
Most Mississippians felt the new law was overdue. But not border-country circuit clerks, who collect-and keep-$3.25 on each license, take in as much as $30,000 a year. Predicted Alcorn County Clerk Dayton Potts, whose office services Alabama and Tennessee residents and whose fees last year totaled more than $25,000: "I doubt there'll be many circuit-clerk candidates for the next election...
...center of political power of the Western world was lodged this week in a bleak, jerry-built room across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. The blue felt table around which sat 14 chiefs of Western governments† was diplomatically round. But in reality, the man at the head of the table was unquestionably and inevitably the man who represented the U.S. From the minute President Eisenhower arrived...
...Flood asked a defendant charged with disturbing the peace if he had ever threatened to kill his wife, was told that "we've been married 20 years and I've never tried to kill her," found him not guilty after he added: "I've felt like it several times, though...