Word: felts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...measure. They were like the Ewings of Dallas, with a brilliant, scheming son wrapping his dirty deals in a whisper and a smile. They were like every family, the Corleones of Mario Puzo's imagination, except they wrote their quarrels in blood. They killed their rivals, and when they felt betrayed from within, they killed each other...
...always felt that the export of our vulgarity is the hallmark of our greatness," says Styron, who lived for many years in Paris and whose books always sell well in France. "I don't necessarily mean to be derogatory. The Europeans have always been fascinated by wanting to know what's going on with this big, ogreish subcontinent across the Atlantic, this potentially dangerous, constantly mysterious country called the U.S. of A." American popular culture fills a vacuum, vulgar or not. "French television is a wasteland; ours is a madhouse. But at least it's vital," says Styron. "Dallas...
...felt to Ketter like Christmas in April, that's because it was. Each spring the Washington-based Christmas in April program coordinates thousands of volunteers in 50 cities and towns from Vermont to California in renovating more than a thousand homes that are near collapse. Better to rebuild old dwellings, they figure, than to build new homeless shelters. In one day of hard work the 1,000 Hartsville volunteers used 400 gal. of paint, 800 lbs. of nails, 7,000 ft. of lumber, 5,000 squares of shingles and 200 bags of cement, all paid for by local donations with...
...late. Northwest Flight 299, a 727 carrying 153 people, had just been cleared for takeoff, and was already roaring toward the DC-9. Unable to get above the lost aircraft, pilot Robert Ouellette felt his right wing rip into the DC-9's cabin and tear off one of its tail engines. Despite his shattered wing, Ouellette skillfully retained control and braked to a stop. Said an aide at the National Transportation Safety Board: "He damn well could have cartwheeled down the runway into another fireball. He saved his people...
When Street Beat first set up shop, the staff approached the local police stations and hospitals to announce their presence and to seek advice and assistance. Out on the street there was initial tension with the pimps, who felt threatened by any aid to their workers. But that quickly changed. "We have made the point that we are looking out for their kids," says Russo. "We are keeping their stable clean...