Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Alarm. On Santa Rosa, passengers and crew felt the shock, heard the sound of the general alarm, rushed to dress. Gathering their life jackets, they streamed toward emergency boat stations. Some, like the shirtless man who stopped to put on a necktie, were momentarily panicky, but they were soon calmed by assurances from Captain Frank S. Siwik, 50, that there was no great danger. Siwik, master of Santa Rosa since her maiden trip last year, directed emergency work from the bridge, ordered fire fighters into the paint locker, radioed the Coast Guard for aid (a Coast Guard helicopter dropped...
...years the rich lands felt the strong influence of the Germans, first from the Knights of the Teutonic Order, later under imperial Prussia's black eagle, still later under Hitler's hooked cross. Dotted between vast estates of Junker aristocrats were thriving industrial and port cities until Allied bombs and the savage conflict between Nazi and Russian armies wiped them out, leaving half the homes and 60% of the factories gutted. Soviet plunderers took most of what was left-railroad rolling stock, machines and livestock. Under the Potsdam Agreement this barren area (the size of Virginia) went...
...boys, probably high school students, jumped me and hit me twice on the head with what felt like a blackjack," Brady said yesterday. "Then they took my wallet, with about $30, and ran," he continued...
Tucker, however, said he felt that a standardized menu would greatly facilitate operations. He pointed out that the proposal was first made by an outside management-consulting firm last year. "It would co-ordinate and consolidate the ordering so that instead of spot buying three times a week we would get bids for larger quantities," Tucker explained...
With her honor so clearly restored, even Enzo d'Agostino felt in a forgiving mood. In the chapel of Catania's prison he married her, then went home to wait for her release from jail. It might not be long; so moved was all Italy by Vincenzina's story last week that President Giovanni Gronchi was reportedly about to pardon...