Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Russians got their Sputnik into its orbit, an Administration official said he felt an urge to "strangle" Budget Director Percival Brundage. But the Administration has budgeted for Vanguard all the funds that the men who run the project asked for ($110 million so far). And that stock villain, interservice rivalry, did not slow up the project, according to Vanguard scientists. In fact, the scientists, from Dr. Hagen down, insist that Vanguard has not failed, that it will reach its basic goal of orbiting a satellite before...
Khrushchev brushed off Reston's request for comment on Soviet political and economic developments,* hammered away at what he clearly felt to be the prime consequence of Russia's celestial showpiece-the demonstration that Russia was no longer the inferior of the U.S. and could no longer be treated like one. The Western disarmament proposals "are conditions of the strong for the weak." he complained. "They sound something like an ultimatum . . . Mr. Eisenhower tries to deal with us as with his satellites . . . But one cannot deal with us in that...
...pumping station on the Iraqi-Jordanian border to ask the aid of his royal cousin, King Feisal of Iraq. Arabia's King Saud, even as he conferred with Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun over ways and means of restoring reason to the aroused Arab nationalists, felt obliged to have his embassies through out the Mideast issue a denial that he had ever accepted the Eisenhower Doc trine...
Many another co-worker has felt the bite of Philip's sarcasm. Said one of his close associates: "He doesn't mind putting himself out for people it's his duty to entertain. But when he wants facts from someone who is supposed to have them and he finds out they don't or are indifferent-well, then he can be bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes...
...Party proposal for breaking up the two-year-old province of West Pakistan into the divergent princely states and provinces that existed under the British. Suhrawardy opposed the change because it would involve a major change in the country's painfully achieved constitution. The Republicans, angered because they felt Suhrawardy's refusal would cost them votes in Pakistan's first general elections next year, walked out of his Cabinet and the government fell...