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Word: felted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese saying goes, "It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep." Among other achievements, four decades of communist rule succeeded to a great extent in suppressing the people's initiative and suffocating their independent minds. People felt that they were being maneuvered and betrayed, used and discarded. It was not only the disillusion resulting from economic failures that caused popular frustration, but also the constant spiritual abuse, which reached the most outrageous degree during the notorious Cultural Revolution...

Author: By Mansu Qian, | Title: China's Great Awakening | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...felt that the sexual theme would have promoted vandalism," says Doctoroff. "If it were received now, it wouldn't have been segregated." And he adds, "It's mostly research books--nothing real spicy...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: From Lady Chatterley to Playboy | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

Most students said they felt that it was absolutely none of the College's business what went on behind the bedroom doors. Monro told reporters that, "When we talked to the students we found a prevailing attitude that what went on in the rooms during social hours was none of the College's business...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: The Harvard Sex Scandal That Shook the Nation | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

Shoes, belt, a gray felt hat and a dark suit, still neatly pressed after 25 years, all rest in the Dallas office of lawyer Jules Mayer, a kind of macabre shrine to his former client Jack Ruby. Missing from this memento mori: the .38-cal. Colt Cobra that killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This bizarre souvenir of the assassination may be worth as much as $250,000 at auction. At least that's what Mayer claims as he squabbles with Ruby's two brothers and two sisters over who has rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memorabilia: The Gun That Jack Shot | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...standstill because of the crowds that thronged to the square, the demonstrators, using packing string and their own bodies, cordoned off lanes so the ambulances could always get through. Many hunger strikers made the trip out; almost as many came back to resume their fast once they felt well enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: State of Siege | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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