Word: felted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...really knew in advance what De Gaulle was planning; at a Cabinet meeting last week, the general coolly informed his ministers that he would show them the speech he intended to make to the nation only on the morning of the broadcast. But the public and politicians felt sure that a "liberal" solution was coming-and everything De Gaulle did last week strengthened that belief. In a move clearly intended to head off potential army resistance, rightist General Andre Zeller, chief of staff of French ground forces, was replaced by Gaullist General Andre Demetz. And to the African Premiers...
...bravos with Samuel Barber's Second Essay for Orchestra, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Afterward, Shostakovich rushed to the stage to embrace Lenny. Pasternak went backstage to kiss Lenny, cried: "You have taken us up to heaven. I've never felt so close to the esthetic truth. When I hear you, I know why you were born." Said Lenny: "I adore this...
...Interplanetary Communications Commission of the [Soviet] Academy of Sciences' Astronomical Council, and he has often been spokesman for Russian space scientists. In recognition of his apparent stature, this year's London meeting of the I.A.F. elected Sedov its president. Said a British delegate dryly: "We felt that the Soviets had done a lot of work in this field and should be recognized...
Urgent Appeal. When the news of the defeat finally reached Vientiane, something like panic seized the otiose Laotian government. Crown Prince Savang Vat-hana, 52, was speedily invested as Regent of Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya...
Without doubt, wrote Martin Luther, ";confession of sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments" But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before receiving Communion. Confession, he felt, should be voluntary, and Christians must be clear that their absolution comes only from God; otherwise, he argued, confession becomes an instrument of oppression in the hands of the church. Luther's own formula for absolution: "Dost thou believe that my forgiveness is God's forgiveness?" (Penitent answers yes). "As thou believest, so shall it come to pass. By command of our Lord...