Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with hope, in the wilderness of a world grown unaccustomed to such virtues. In 1965 he came to New York, to speak at the United Nations, and it was not only the schoolchildren who cheered. Five hundred million Roman Catholics hung intently on the words from the man they felt quite comfortable calling "His Holiness...
...Centrists maintained was dragging his feet in restoring to its original owners lands seized by peasants during the turbulent 1974 revolution. The C.D.S. ministers also wanted sweeping modifications in a proposed national program of socialized medicine. When Scares refused, the dissidents carried out their threat. President Eanes felt he had no choice this time but to fire his Premier...
After he was dismissed, Soares said he felt that his governing responsibilities and those of the cabinet were ended. But Eanes promptly issued a decree ordering Soares and the cabinet to stay in their posts as a caretaker government until another was formed...
Kimball's predecessors felt bound by the traditional interpretation of Smith's scriptures. Passages in the Book of Mormon consider dark skin a sign of God's disfavor, and the Book of Abraham specifies that Canaanites (interpreted as Africans) are "cursed as to the priesthood." Indeed, outside dissidents bought a full-page ad in the Salt Lake Tribune last week accusing Kimball of heresy and pointing out that Brigham Young declared that blacks would only get the priesthood after all "other descendants of Adam" had their chance...
...sympathetic to Allen's problem. As great comedian to his age, he must have felt that the faintest suggestion of humor would have stirred audiences to a risibility from which he could not recover their attention. But, of course, the absence of wit does not necessarily betoken seriousness; it merely betokens the absence of wit. All Allen really had to avoid was farce. We could have accepted, as a logical outgrowth of his work to date, the rue and irony of a full-scale comedy of middle-class manners, a sympathetically satirical study of the lies by which many...