Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions who felt they had known her all their lives were puddling...
Reagan's praise was faint, and the body language between the two men, as ever, betrayed discomfort. Nevertheless, Bush's advisers felt he had accomplished a major purpose of his visit: to shore up his crucial and complex relationship with his predecessor and, by extension, with Reagan's loyalists on the Republican right. As Bush jetted last week from Chicago to San Jose to Miami, pointing with pride to the accomplishments of his first 100 days, he and his aides stressed their "continuity" with Reagan and felt obliged to deny the obvious: embedded in their accomplishments are subtle but distinct...
...President, Richard Nixon, urged Bush to stop his staff from contrasting his hands-on energy with Reagan's well-known sloth and detachment. Bush, whose politeness is legendary, was furious that anyone on his payroll would blurt such disrespectful truths. One senior Bushman who had also worked for Reagan felt obliged to write to Nancy Reagan (with a copy to President Bush) denying he had bad-mouthed her husband...
...talk about his work before the American Physical Society in May and that he intended to do so. According to Brigham Young, the meeting ended with an agreement to submit simultaneous papers to Nature on March 24. When Pons and Fleischmann suddenly announced their "breakthrough" on March 23, Jones felt he had been sandbagged...
...gone on here in last weeks. When discussed at the Executive Council meeting, someone cynically remarked that this was just a face-saving measure on the part of Joel Hornstein, and that is precisely what it was. Having essentially gone back on its original position, the council still felt it necessary to take what was, in my opinion, a hastily considered statement on a highly complex and nuanced issue. Lawrence Goodman '92 Council Representative