Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolled up to the Quirinale Palace, where the President and his party were to stay, Italy's President Gronchi seemed acutely embarrassed about the rain-splashed welcome. "Ah, Mr. President," said Gronchi, with a sad-eyed shrug. Ike reached out and patted Gronchi on the sleeve, said he felt that the welcome had been very warm, expressed understanding about the bad weather. And in the splendid patina of the Quirinale, the party's spirits picked up. That afternoon Ike found time for a nap. His son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara explored the sprawling, centuries...
...India felt both angry and alone. The ruthlessness of Red China's behavior made a wreckage of some cherished convictions. There was no longer confidence that 1) Asian solidarity, created at the Bandung Conference, would outlaw the use of force, 2) Indian neutrality and nonalignment with "military blocs" would gradually lead the Communist and non-Communist worlds to mutual understanding, 3) the repeated pledges of "peaceful coexistence" by Peking meant that Red China was worthy of joining the U.N. The national disillusionment was so great that even Prime Minister Nehru took off his rose-colored glasses, looked hard...
...Ferraud "felt a terrible cracking" under him. Hastily grabbing his child from bed, he sprinted with his wife for high ground. Moments later, Malpasset Dam burst in shards like a flower pot, and a wall of water 25 ft. high swept down the valley at 50 miles an hour, washing trees, houses, vehicles and people towards the sea. When the flood smashed down on Fréjus, the old Roman part of the city was largely spared, but the thickly populated western sector went under...
...most deeply felt charge that serious Latin American critics level at U.S. policy is not stinginess or economic domination, but simple indifference-a lack of attention in high places. Last week the attention was coming from all over. President Dwight Eisenhower dropped word that he plans to make a good-will visit to Latin America next spring, before his trip to Russia (likely stops: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile). And politicians of every stripe were paying Latin America the ultimate compliment of playing expert...
...Shivers. In effect, the two crewmen were emissaries of Dr. John Strong, of Johns Hopkins University, who designed the experiment but felt that skilled balloonists were better able to carry it out under the rigors of high-altitude flight. Chief instrument was a 16-in. telescope mounted on top of the gondola and manipulated by remote control by the scientists inside. But they ran into immediate trouble. Take-off had been delayed for three hours by a minor fire in the gondola, and by the time the balloon reached 80,000 ft., Venus was too low to catch...