Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...places-in Madagascar, when you described the 1947-48 rebellion there; in Johannesburg, when you published your famous article about the dangers of living in that city; and in Kenya, during the Mau Mau emergency-I canceled my subscription and became one of your critics. As an Englishman, I felt that your reporting was a disservice to the British Commonwealth and the free world in general...
...container (ten gallons a person), a two-week supply of dehydrated food, candles, a battery-powered radio and a toilet container. Urgently needed, said the task force, is another survival item "not yet in existence": a cheap, accurate, simple radiation-detection device. Radiation "cannot be seen, touched, tasted or felt," and if people in shelters had no reliable way of testing whether radiation had fallen to endurable levels outside, fear and doubt could wreck their morale and impair the nation's capacity to rebound...
...Gibson's quiet humor and relaxed manner was enjoyable, but I felt that this young folksinger would be more effective in a night club than on the concert stage. The humorous, catchy folksong is Mr. Gibson's forte; he delighted his audience with "The Horse Named Bill," a nonsensical little number that has been a favorite on college campuses for generations. His recollections of Aspen and his own song "Super-skier" were delightful...
...twelve NATO squadrons in Europe. Ottawa's long irresolution spurred a mild rash of public and private talk that Canada should spend the money on aid to underdeveloped nations instead-to the extent that a discomfited Diefenbaker, while collecting an honorary degree at Michigan State last month, felt compelled to reaffirm unwavering support for NATO...
Concurring Justices hastened to add some obiter dicta. Felix Frankfurter, "as one whose taste in art and literature hardly qualifies him for the avant-garde," doubted that the picture would have offended even "Victorian moral sensibilities." Said Justice John Marshall Harlan, who felt that Lady should not be banned, even though he also felt that the Supreme Court had moved too swiftly in striking down the New York statute: "I cannot regard this film as depicting anything more than a somewhat unusual, and rather pathetic, 'love triangle...