Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first, having the kids watch TV for hours in the car felt a little bit like cheating--but only a little, and not for long. Much as we'd like to believe our children would be content for hours reading the abridged Jane Eyre, nothing keeps them in good spirits the way some not-so-classic kid vid does. And our results speak for themselves. For successive summers, we've trekked nearly the entire Eastern seaboard with three small children and exactly zero major fighting or crying episodes (not counting Dad's getting stuck in D.C. traffic...
...background." In its first five years, Arbusto drilled 95 wells, hitting oil or gas about 50% of the time, an average performance. "George used to say, 'Man, we need a company maker,'" recalls Dickey, who discovered some vast oil fields in later years, working for other companies. "I always felt bad I never found one for him. He was the best boss I ever...
...weren't that loud," says O'Neill. "But the next morning, nobody felt great." Contrary to some reports, Bush made no dramatic breakfast-table declaration about quitting. He said nothing--at first, not even to Laura. "It's easy to say, 'I quit,'" he says. "But this time I meant it." It wasn't until they got home that he told her he was finished with alcohol. "He just said, 'I'm going to quit,' and he did," Laura remembers. "That was it. We joked about it later, saying he got the bar bill and that...
...lead it he has, not just forward but outward. "It is as if a Third World cardinal had won," remarked a Brazilian archbishop when Wojtyla was elected. The Catholics of that world, who often felt isolated and alienated by the Vatican?s high palace walls, were the ones John Paul II was determined to bring into his church. He proved to be a tireless traveler and a relentless evangelizer, taking his ready wit and common touch -- and a telegenic quality unlike any other pope?s -- to nearly every corner of the far-flung but fractured Catholic world. "He?s totally...
When Otto first saw us after the war, he showed us the book. "Look what I've got. I've got Anne's diary." And when he read a few pages, he would start to cry. He would say, "I wish I had known how she felt about that." He had no intention of publishing it. But a friend of his, a history professor, convinced him it was a wonderful document of the period. After much soul searching, Otto decided to do it. He took out things he thought hurtful to people--and five pages where Anne writes...