Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ronald Beamish, 69, visiting from England, went over to Chestnut and felt for a pulse; it was failing. "You'll be all right," he said. "You'll be all right." Over on the Senate side of the Capitol, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, a heart surgeon in his former life, got word of the shootings and raced across to the scene as medics poured in from the ambulances outside. He worked to resuscitate first one victim, then another. "I was really just focused on keeping their hearts and lungs moving," he said. Gibson was hustled out to a helicopter...
...doesn't say that the general devoted much of his time trying to get hospitals built in Vietnam for war casualties. This picture really messed up his life. He never blamed me. He told me if I hadn't taken the picture, someone else would have, but I've felt bad for him and his family for a long time. I had kept in contact with him; the last time we spoke was about six months ago, when he was very ill. I sent flowers when I heard that he had died and wrote, "I'm sorry. There are tears...
...this backlighted image--thin, faded, antique, like the unambiguous emotions it used to stir in an age less given to irony and selfishness than our own. Steven Spielberg, in his new film, Saving Private Ryan, wants us to think about that, about how "the deep pride we once felt in our flag" has given way "to cynicism about our colors...
...felt very conflicted," Cooper recalls when he first met with Chu-Ki-Nren in Tokyo. "Imagine sitting across the table from Joseph Mengele." Still, he decided to help because "young people in Japan live in a historical black hole...
...race, like "Caucasian" or "Polynesian," because it was commonly used by other kids and teachers. In grade school, kids called me Suzie Wong, stretched out their eyes and asked me to teach them judo. I had no idea who Suzie Wong was, thought the eye thing was funny and felt dumb that I didn't know judo like I was supposed...