Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME DEFINITELY DISTORTS MY REACTION TO THE "DAILY WORKER'S" STATEMENT CONCERNING STEPINAC'S GUILT. I DID NOT IMPLY THAT HE WAS INNOCENT BUT SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOUR REPORTER THAT I THOUGHT WE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO MAKE ANY BLANKET STATEMENTS CONCERNING EITHER HIS GUILT OR HIS INNOCENCE. I DEFINITELY SAID THAT WE WERE CONVINCED THAT HIS TRIAL WAS NOT A TRIAL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, BUT WAS A JUDGMENT ON HIS ACTIVITIES AS AN INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN OF YUGOSLAVIA...
Before the war, the Hudson's Bay Company sold extensively in Britain. But during the dollar shortage Sir Patrick laid down a rule: export for dollars. Today, not a single Hudson's Bay blanket (made in Yorkshire) can be sold in Britain...
With them he got a pair of magic spectacles to decipher the symbols. One look by anyone else, Joseph said, would mean instant death. After months of speaking from behind a blanket while awe-stricken neighbors took down his words, Joseph Smith produced a 275,000-word document which he called The Book of Mormon. Mark Twain, the great debunker of his day, later described it as "chloroform in print...
...earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...
Despite last winter's slump, a prime lower Yukon mink still brought $35, a prime beaver blanket...