Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...information about the coming moon mission. As she went back over the history of the U.S. space effort, she was reminded of how much has been accomplished in so short a time. And having worked on so many of TIME'S stories about the age of space, she felt a new involvement. The hurried effort to orbit the little Explorer satellite in 1958, John Glenn's historic orbital ride, the first space walk ... all man's halting steps suddenly seemed to have brought him within reach of his lunar goal. And by now, every member of TIME...
Financially, Humphrey felt the polls had hurt him. He remarked several times that he received fewer donations at the outset of his campaign because the polls had marked him with the stigma of defeat. A more direct danger, however, is that polls can be deliberately manipulated by office holders and office seekers alike to influence public opinion...
...these mind-busting advances were made in isolation in the sense that they do not belong on any of the albums. "A Day in the Life" was so out of place on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles felt compelled to close the album theme just before the song came...
...about Coed Week. I suppose the strangeness was unavoidable in such a laboratory-experiment stuation. I found myself as I walked through a building or across a yard smiling left and right, stopping and marvelling at just exactly what it was that I was doing. I realized that I felt almost like a missionary or someone from the Salvation Army. It was as if 1000 angels of peace were being visited upon New Haven to calm the seething inhabitants and to show the benighted the light of coeducational normalcy and tranquility. The ever-present smiles on the faces...
...latest tax increase would have passed easily if Youngstown's powerful unions had supported it, but organized labor has long felt estranged from the city's schools. Until recently, the school board had no labor-oriented representatives. School officials failed to support a United Steelworkers plan to open a community college in Youngstown that would have provided more opportunities for high-level vocational instruction. The main source of friction was a rivalry over who should represent the city's teachers in contract negotiations: the local affiliate of the National Education Association or the growing Youngstown Federation...