Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a cardinal aim of British foreign policy to share in U.S. nuclear secrets; Harold Macmillan would push hard for such a sharing, and in the Sputnik era there seemed a fair chance that the U.S. Congress would at last approve. On a broader basis, President Eisenhower has long felt the need for an overall pooling of NATO scientific talent. At the White House dinner for Elizabeth II, he gave in his toast a key to a top Macmillan agenda item: "We have the power. The only thing to do is to put it together. Our scientists must work together...
...powerful Administration member: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Said Dulles, replying to questions about Sputnik at his press conference: "I think it is perhaps a good thing that this satellite was put up in good time so that there would not be an undue complacency. I think [we] felt generally that we were almost automatically ahead of the Russians in every respect. Well, that is not so, and those of us who have been close to the situation have, I think, realized that for some time...
...Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would necessarily offend his Southern supporters. Jack Kennedy disagreed: he felt that he had to live up to his speaking commitment and, further, that he had to speak out on civil rights. Last week he did both with auspicious political results...
...idea that the Germans themselves had spurned from the moment Bismarck seized on the 19th century Economist Friedrich List's protectionist ideas to the hour that Hjalmar Schacht's totalitarian Autarkic collapsed with Hitler. U.S. experts laughed after listening to Erhard's spouting, or felt sorry for the pathetic figure so obviously lost amid the realities around...
...Radcliffe girl should be allowed to hold membership in what are now, officially speaking, Harvard organizations. The only obstacle to the merger is the Radcliffe Administration which is not so much worried about the girls as they are about the Administration's dignity. The Annex's officers never have felt very important, and this is understandable considering that their college is basically a boarding house for girls who attend Harvard. In the present situation, Radcliffe is trying to give the girls the benefits of joining Harvard groups while making an awkward attempt to raise Radcliffe's prestige. This...