Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago, in 1968, America -- and much of the world as well -- felt the dislocations of another annus mirabilis...
...plight of Razo, a former varsity football player, has drawn national attention since he turned himself in to police last summer in connection with a string of armed robberies. Razo, who is from a California barrio, said at the time that he felt alienated at Harvard because of his ethnic identity...
...remember how I felt as an adolescent," said Caise. "I like clothes. I love shoes. But also, some of my best friends never graduated from high school...
...years. According to Neznansky, the young graduate tried for a position with the Moscow Komsomol apparatus but lost out to a classmate and had little choice but to return to the provinces if he wanted to continue a career in party politics. It may be too that Gorbachev felt an obligation to the Stavropol Krai (territory) authorities, who had apparently paid part of his university expenses, or that he was simply homesick...
Boarding the plane, Lynch felt "like a prizefighter who knows that in six hours he will walk into the ring." Despite his confidence that the market would bounce back, he was troubled by fears and doubts, just like every other investor, large or small, during the historic crash. He thought about his mother, who lived through 1929 and "always said you should never own stocks." He wondered, "Maybe this is the start of the real thing." Most of all, he thought of the people who had bet on him, though he had always told them up front that...