Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Draft. Although 60.2% of the executives felt that conscription would work some hardship on their business (6% said it would have a seriously adverse effect), they were solidly (84.1%) in favor...
...clear the subways, but the police dared not carry out the order. The smelly air was not improved by portable lavatories grudgingly provided by the Transport Ministry. Over the huddled clerks, waitresses, street sweepers, hairdressers, tarts, hung a danger almost as bad as the bombs from which they felt safe-epidemic...
...long merciless strangulation by night, Britain's leaders grew more & more concerned about the discomfort and discontent of little people. If anyone could hold their confidence, it was old Winnie. His fond grip on them grew every hour. Rich and poor alike paid him honor. Britain felt that it was cornered, but that Winnie would find a fence to climb over and a mine to hide...
...name," may be traded five or a hundred times before the ownership is transferred on the company's books. On a normal dividend day, stocks are traded "ex-dividend." But having had no notice of the Tommy dividend, buyers who had neglected to transfer their purchase with Thompson felt entitled to the payment. Last week cashiers were still scurrying about, making sure that all who received checks (those on the company's books) actually owned the stock, trying to persuade others to play square and pass their checks along. The extra (and unpaid) work also ruffled the National...
...their arrival at Dakar. What was their object? Did they intend to put down the swing to De Gaulle in French Equatorial Africa? Whatever they were up to, the British must have known or the French would not have passed unchallenged. And whatever it was, the British must have felt safer with the French ships out of the Mediterranean, where they might have been seized by the Axis...