Word: felted
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Last year Congress nudged the program in the right direction, but the steps were meek: four-year-olds who know 10 letters of the alphabet, for example, are felt to be on track. Bush would require lessons that stress prereading and math, teachers who can teach this and evaluations to make sure it is done well. If existing centers don't deliver, Bush would sensibly make them compete with others for their federal contract...
...majority of the journalists prepared to leave, the atmosphere was still tense. My feelings were mixed as I left in the back of an Indonesian army truck, my head forced down low by the soldiers guarding us. I was happy to leave the intimidation, exhaustion and squalor. But I felt devastated to leave a country and people I had grown to love to a desperate and brutal future...
Football at Swarthmore has often felt like an exercise in solitude, and in futility. Coming into the season-opening game against Oberlin, the Garnet Tide had been defeated in 28 straight games--the longest losing streak in college football. Their last win was in 1995, and the final score, 2-0, sounded like that of a soccer match. The school had since considered dropping football altogether. Players quit the team in droves. Only a handful of students showed up to watch Saturday home games. But at this intensely cerebral Quaker college, there has been a revived interest in the fortunes...
...Chang, the only girl on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and Harry couldn't help noticing, nervous as he was, that she was extremely pretty. She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that he didn't think had anything to do with nerves...
...trouble began with what felt like a speck of grit in my left eye. I didn't think anything was seriously wrong--until three days later when the eye puffed up and turned weepy and red. I called Glen Ellyn Clinic near my home in west suburban Chicago, and a couple of hours later I found myself seated in a darkened room across from ophthalmologist Mary Mehaffey...