Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson also announced that he is preparing a report on the second most important topic on the Council's agenda, the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. The executive committee last week discussed the matter with Dean Watson, who "didn't know too much about it," but felt that the Council "had a right to investigate the situation," Johnson said...
...week Arkansas' Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, who had engineered the Newport meeting with President Eisenhower in all good faith, worked tirelessly on Faubus. Said Mrs. Hays: "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and find Brooks wide awake, thinking things out." Said Hays: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game." Hays spent two hours with Faubus on Monday, four more on Tuesday, three on Wednesday and one on Thursday...
...Lords against nationalized industry, Socialism ("imposed equality"), in favor of capital punishment, against lowbrow radio and TV programs, and above all, for a "firm" British line in foreign affairs. After Suez he came into his own as the party's favorite orator, blurting openly what many Conservatives felt. Never failing to mention first that he is part American (his maternal grandfather was Judge Trimble Brown of Nashville, Tenn.), he went on to say: "Almost for the first time in my life, I have begun to find it hard to say that I am half American, and still harder...
...Madison Avenue knew exactly how Brower felt. It was like coming out of the trenches to blighty and peace on earth. Even as they panted after Revlon, the most dynamic cosmetic-maker in the U.S., veteran admen gulped their Gibsons nervously at the thought of also taking on Revlon's rambunctious President Charles Revson, 50, the most feared, cheered and jeered advertising client since the late George Washington Hill of American Tobacco fearlessly sent Lucky Strike green...
...forces and the men leading up to the Reformation proper-the grimly erudite Oxonian, Wyclif; the austere advance runner of Protestantism. John Huss; the peripatetic humanist. Desiderius Erasmus, who could "scarce forbear" to pray to "St. Socrates" and expressed in satire what many of his contemporaries mutely felt about the late-Renaissance church. Author Durant delightedly quotes from an Erasmus dialogue written on the death in 1513 of Julius II, one of the worldlier Popes, who is presented as seeking admission to heaven from St. Peter...