Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gently as I could, I told Mrs. Rommel that I had the war diaries, that I had learned about her birthday, and that I knew all about the shoes. I felt no elation at showing my hand to this charming woman. Mrs. Rommel was a grand loser. She rose from her chair. "I sincerely hope, Mr. Ryan," she said, "that you do not intend to harm my husband's reputation with this story." Then she said: "I'll show you the shoes," and left the room. Mrs. Rommel returned. In her hand were the grey suede shoes-platform...
Judge the Measure. More calmly, Kennedy stated that he had in fact felt "for many years" that it would be a "mistake" for the U.S. Government to advocate birth control in other countries. "We have to be very careful how we give advice on this subject," said he, noting that the U.S. has never urged birth control at home or in Western Europe. "Accordingly, I think it would be the greatest psychological mistake for us to appear to advocate limitation of the black, or brown, or yellow peoples whose population is increasing no faster than in the United States...
...pants legs. By popping the pants sharply onto the water, waistband first, he trapped an air bubble in each leg-and there, with his improvised float, he bobbed in the black sea. Isbell's lights faded in the distance ("I guess that was about the alonest I ever felt"). For a while, he tried swimming, but every time he moved he would churn up the phosphorescence and worry about sharks...
Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, had waged a buoyant campaign that left him unchallenged as party leader. In defeat he felt strong enough to pledge himself to "a vow of silence, self-imposed," while he "collected the voices" about what was wrong and what needed to be changed. But at his middle-class Hampstead home in north London, he chose to consult not with trade-union leaders, with whom he feels uncomfortable, but with fellow Oxford intellectuals such as Economist Douglas Jay, who publicly urged that the party should drop its "class image" and "nationalization myth" and even consider...
Harvard swimming followers have long felt frustrated at watching strong Crimson teams roll over routine opponents, then drop their annual match with Yale...