Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disgusted with myself, for had I the courage of a Kennedy or a King, I would be fighting this war at home with words, rather than in a perimeter tower with guns. With that thought in mind, I pledged myself to peace-and at that same time felt very hypocritical, for I knew full well that when it came right down to it I would have to do my talking with...
...Thieu if it ever came to a showdown. But with Tet and the harrowing onslaught against the Saigon government, the U.S., for the sake of preserving unity in the crisis, could no longer afford to balance between Thieu and Ky. Washington threw its support squarely behind Thieu, and Ky felt left...
...every right to 'regard the law as their enemy'?" On the left, the Village Voice's Jack Newfield, a noisy supporter of Kennedy, used the occasion to berate all the people who do not share his apocalyptic, sock-it-to-'em view of politics. Newfield felt "rage," he said, "at men like Archbishop Cooke and Eric Hoffer, who say America should feel no national guilt, because the assassin was a Jordanian nationalist...
...case, as the middle-class Irish drifted to the suburbs, Curley-style paternalism faded. The hospital was flooded with more and more poor patients, but it lacked the means to provide the increasingly expensive medical care. Faced with spreading urban decay and soaring annual deficits, a strapped city hall felt compelled to place the hospital's money requests far behind other needs, such as schools, slum demolition and downtown renewal. Three years ago, the hospital's accreditation was put on probation. Still, newly installed Mayor Kevin White, who has switched the emphasis to low-income housing and neighborhood...
...company's painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto's great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made...