Word: denim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont neighbors take no special notice of the heavy-set man with the big head of unkempt white hair. Occasionally they meet him on a back-country road, trudging along with an oddly catlike grace, wearing an old blue denim jacket and blue sneakers. They recognize the heavy, big-knuckled hand shaped to axhelve and pitchfork, the heavy shoulders hunched to the swing of a scythe. Vermonters find nothing outlandish or alarming about Robert Frost...
...meeting he stepped down from the platform to chat with the crowds, often delayed his schedule because he insisted on stopping off for roadside discussions. When he disappeared during the Wallace strawberry festival last week, his supporters knew just where to find Frank Graham: at the market, talking to denim-clad strawberry farmers...
Taking time off from winter chores, Farmer Booth slipped off his buttoned sweater and sat down on the living-room sofa in his blue denim shirt. The farm, he figured, was worth better than $125,000. Last year he sold his hogs for $27,600. He got $10,169 for his corn, $9,216 for his wheat. "I just figured up my income tax and it scared me," he admitted. "I paid more this year than I ever...