Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson laid blame for racial unrest at UMass and other schools at the feet of the Reagan administration, saying "the frustration and alienation felt along the lines of race represent a lack of moral leadership coming from the White House...
...country in a continent upon which I had never set foor....[A]fter all, I was myself the child of a successful revolt against a great power [and had] at least some knowledge of what weakness is like, some awareness of the view from underneath, and of how it felt to be there, on the bottom, looking up at the descending heel...
From the beginning of their partnership, Mariotta and Neuberger were proud that they made a good product for a good price. But they felt that procurement officials in the Defense Department sneered at the company and did not give it a fair shake. Their plan of attack, according to investigators, was to shower money on virtually everyone they thought could help the company win contracts. Not all these efforts were illegal, but they illustrate how Wedtech spent its way to success...
That is because the pieces echo each other in odd, intriguing ways. Gordon returns habitually, hypnotically, to a small number of predicaments. There is the pain and bewilderment felt by young girls who have lost their fathers, either through death or abandonment. One such victim remembers being forced to attend birthday parties and dreading them "as I did the day of judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found...
...taken from Baggett's adrenal gland should produce enough dopamine in her brain to alleviate her Parkinson's symptoms. At week's end it was still too early to tell if the operation was successful. But Baggett already knew that she had contributed to medical progress. "All along I felt like the good Lord gave me Parkinson's disease for some reason," she said before the operation. "Maybe this is the reason...