Word: felted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...over in his mind. One of the elements that fascinated him was its treatment of male beauty. "You have it, and then you lose it," he says, recalling his own youth as a dancer in London. "I identify with that from my early clubbing days. The power that you felt walking in - like you ruled the world!" The obvious flaw of the book, as Bourne saw it, was its lack of sympathetic characters. But somehow he kept returning to it. "Perhaps this cautionary tale - this Rake's Progress - could tell us something about the world we live...
...Russia's action has raised the level of insecurity felt along Europe's eastern edge, and is likely to reinforce support from the member states formerly dominated by the Soviet Union for Georgia and Ukraine to be granted NATO membership - a red-line issue for Russia. France and Germany have urged caution, fearing that both former Russian territories could drag the alliance into conflict with Moscow. While hawkish voices in the U.S. suggest that Russia would have been deterred from attacking Georgia had it and Ukraine been on track for NATO membership, France and Germany see things quite differently...
...shock. Even the announcers on Chinese television didn't know what to say, letting silence wash over the airwaves. In postrace news wrap-ups, at least two Chinese journalists choked up, unable to describe what had just happened. The violin strains that accompanied montages of Liu's Olympic journey felt more suited to a state leader's funeral than to a race averted...
That brings up my next question: what do you think of the presidential campaign? Barack Obama to me, he thrilled me. The first time I heard him speak at the convention [in 2004], I felt it right down to my heart, right down to my toes. And I said, "That's our next president." I said it right then. "That is our next president." Bush and Cheney - they've got more evidence to impeach these guys than they had with Nixon. Don't worry, the wheels of justice grind slow, but exceedingly fine...
...bombers in Cuba in response to U.S. missile-defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russians should be told that moving bombers to Cuba "crosses a red line for the United States of America," he said. Let's just say that the Russian military brass have long felt the same way about Ukraine and Georgia being militarily integrated into a rival alliance...