Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gandhi, dressed in a newly starched khadi loin cloth, with a white cotton shawl over his bare shoulders, drove in a new, green Studebaker to Jinnah's stucco house. Acting the part of Qaed-e-Azam (Head of the Nation), Jinnah sent his secretary to greet Gandhi at his car, waited inside the house for his first private meeting with the Hindu leader in three years...
...Pope prefers it cold, even in winter. (He is a believer in the Kneipp system of fighting colds with cold.) After his bath, he shaves with an electric razor and dresses rapidly. Usually his vestments are changed from the day before. His indoor shoes are made of cloth (red, except on Good Friday, when he wears white) and are left every night to be cleaned along with the vestments...
...cloth. When the raiders have enough booty, they loose a few arrows and vanish into the jungle, followed by a fusillade of panicky gunfire from the victims...
...ancient Incas fully appreciated chinchillas; they wore the skins and ate the flesh. Sometimes the Incas sheared them like tiny sheep, wove thistledown cloth of their "wool." In the late 19th Century, a rage for chinchilla swept the world of fashion-and furriers soon swept the Andes bare of the little animals...
...Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...