Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none of the General Assembly's business, once again boycotted the debate. But Charles de Gaulle's offer of self-determination to Algeria (TIME, Sept. 28) had so strengthened France's moral posture that even Saudi Arabia's volatile Ahmad Shukairy, wildest of Arab orators, felt obliged to express his "esteem, tribute, and high regard" for the general. Seeing that they were not mustering enough support, the Afro-Asians, led by Pakistan's Aly Khan, softened their resolution even more (ALGERIAN REBELS RUN UNDER ALY KHAN'S COLORS, headlined one Paris paper...
...pawnbrokering to, curiously enough, espionage. In Indonesia, Chinese traders and their families-some 300,000 people-were ordered to get out of rural villages by year's end. Not since the Japanese swarmed into the South Pacific in World War II have Asia's Overseas Chinese felt their position so threatened...
Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy...
...tenements re-create with consuming vitality the remarkable collaboration between blind child and half-blind adult that blossomed in Tuscumbia, Ala. three-quarters of a century ago. So successful are the two actresses that Author Gibson is convinced they transcend the bounds of mere acting. "I've always felt the curtain call was haunted," says Gibson. "A high percentage of the applause is for the people who really lived...
...deliberate "C-men," for whom President Lowell had always felt particular antipathy, were at last becoming a minority group. Partly by his own example of industry, Lowell had instilled in faculty and students alike a distaste for complacency and intellectual lethargy. The tutor system too had a new premium on individual effort, so that the men who had planned on doing just enough to get by were finding it rather heavy going...