Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the existence of the order was revealed today, high officials obviously felt it would lead to a belief that the Army was expecting widespread violence in the South...
This glance never failed to make Vag uneasy. He always felt that he should be explaining himself to his friend, that he should be justifying his choice of a college and of a curriculum. He remembered hearing an address once by President Griswold of Yale on "The Practical Value of a Liberal Education," and he remembered that it had sounded very convincing at the time. But strain as he might, he could not recall any of the points, and he suspected that they would not sound as convincing coming from his mouth anyway...
Then new method of "soft-sell" persuasion was, Johnson admitted, "less successful for bringing in money," though it was "better in the long run" than the former manner. Contributors this year, the president felt, were students "who wanted to give, while in previous years, they have been "shamed into giving...
...Serious Blunder." Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, the U.S.'s staunchest friend among Arab politicians, felt compelled to announce that Lebanon opposed the use of force against Syria. That much courted Arab potentate, King Saud, passing luxuriously through Beirut en route to the waters of Baden-Baden, felt the same way, and though the State Department, in beating a later retreat, indignantly denied that King Saud had personally advised the Eisenhower Administration to take it easy, the denial was only narrowly true...
...with a $4,500 fine, three months in jail and five years' probation. Last week, ruling that there was "hardly a scintilla" of evidence that Murray had misled his customers, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Despite the court's action, Murray Kram, 28, felt that the mail business was getting too uncomfortable. But he already had a new, eminently legal career in mind: aiding churches as a professional fund raiser, at 15% of the gross take...