Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superficial" Far Eastern policy, the U.S. has made the mistake of "unleashing Chiang Kai-shek," Bowles contended. Bowles also has "never felt that the Baghdad Pact made sense," and he charged that the American policy in the Middle East is irrationally based on four men "of whom not one could take out an insurance policy...
...prop was never guaranteed before the crop was planted, but the farmers' expectations encouraged surplus production. Last week, before the vote, word went around the corn belt that Benson would not support noncompliance corn next year if farmers rejected his plan. Thus many who approved his new system felt that they were voting for continued broad, if lower, price props, against his threat to cut subsidies...
Machine Creation. Many of the speakers tackled the question: "What is intelligence?" None of them had a wholly satisfactory answer. Dr. Marvin L. Minsky of M.I.T. felt that the problem is unduly complicated by irrational human reverence for human intelligence. "We can often find simple machines," he said, "which exhibit performances that would be called intelligent if done by a man. We are, understandably, very reluctant to confer this dignity on an evidently simple machine...
...reads, The Odyssey is by all odds the most impressive literary achievement of many a year. It bears out the feeling Kazantzakis once expressed, in describing a form of spiritual conversion he underwent during a solitary retreat in the mountains: "Since then I have felt ashamed to commit any vulgar act, to lie, to be overcome by fears, because I know that I also have a great responsibility in the progress of the world. I work and think now with certainty, for I know that my contribution, because it follows the profound depths of the universe, will not go lost...
...added that the House Committee felt the benefit derived from giving to the charity drive "would be as much as that gained by spending the money in another way." The $100 gift is earmarked for the United Fund...