Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where foreign policy is concerned, as you know, Chris," said Dulles, "I have always felt that there could not and should not be any interlopers between the President and the Secretary of State." It struck one who was there that Dulles was recalling how his uncle, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State Robert Lansing, had been short-circuited by Wilson's reliance upon his close adviser, Colonel Edward M. House. Then Special Consultant Dulles assured Secretary of State Herter that he, Dulles, would never get in the way. Said he: "I have never wanted to be an interloper...
...search disappointed many Norwegians, who felt that the U.S. had not given it a proper try. "I don't understand it," said a Norwegian helicopter pilot. "We could have continued the search for days. I told the Americans that it is naturally difficult to find an object like that, but that I was not pessimistic." Around Longyearbyen, many miners refused to give up. Their optimism was kept alive partly by a $500 reward offered by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., one of the builders of the Discoverer II, partly by the fervent hope that they could beat Russian search parties...
...blooding came in his second performance. In Nuevo Laredo, before an Easter-week crowd, a bull slashed at him, and the horn pierced his groin, requiring seven stitches. Baron never faltered. "Can you go on?" asked Franklin fearfully. "Sure," he replied, and forthwith dispatched the bull. But Clements felt that he had failed the spectators. "The people expected perfection," he says. "They have a full right to expect it, and I expect them to expect it, and I intend to give it. When I don't give it, I expect them to be disappointed...
...Carloadings rose more than 18% over the same week last year, as the nation's railroads felt the sharp impact of increased business...
...bill got no support from unions or industry. Steelworkers Union Chief David McDonald opposed the bill because he felt it would have "a stifling effect on free collective bargaining." Freezing prices to halt inflation, said U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, is "like trying to check the rising pressure in a steam boiler by plugging up the safety valve." The real cause of rising industrial prices since the war, charged Blough, is rising employment costs, which now "represent more than 75% of all costs." Furthermore, said Blough, the O'Mahoney bill would "diminish still further the profit incentive," could...