Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agencies as CARE and the Catholic Relief Services had given up on it; gifts clearly labeled NOT TO BE SOLD invariably ended up, not in the hands of the hungry, but in the hands of the black-marketeers. Soon the effects of the bloodless military takeover began to be felt. Streets became clean, bus queues orderly, scooter-ricksha boys unexpectedly polite. Instead of dragging themselves to work any hour of the morning, government clerks began showing up at 9. General Ayub jailed about 100 politicos, but he has since so tightened up the processes of justice that there...
...farmers are taking the big step from mechanization to automation in the raising of animals and fowl; they are copying the assembly-line techniques of industry and bringing animals indoors. Once man felt he could not provide an environment for animals as good as nature's. Now he knows he can do a whole lot better. Behind him, giving him confidence, are ever-new discoveries in antibiotics, hormones, climate control, nutrition and plant and animal genetics...
...announcing the proposal for a new Zoning Code last November, the Planning Board stated its intention to seek amendments to the state Enabling laws "so that colleges and universities would not be exempt from those contols which the City Council has from time to time felt desirable for the proper development of the City...
Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government, said, "Macmillan may have felt that Khrushchev's main motive in the Berlin crisis is to force the West to agree to keep IRBM's out of West Germany." Hopper claimed that the West could afford to restrict missiles with atomic warheads to Britain or France...
...been too much emphasis on the cas special, and subjects such as the order of pronouns have been taught in patches over a period of several months instead of in one concentrated lesson." Madame Duhamel, who taught French to foreign students at the Sorbonne in Paris for 12 years, felt that grammar should be over-simplified if necessary in order to get across to the student its essentially logical pattern...