Word: dowel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I watch TV now," says Hugh Saunders, president of a dowel-making firm in Westbrook, Me., "I feel angry to think that this country took so long to realize that it was destroying itself and the Vietnamese by being there." Complains Lawrence Sullivan, an official of the Greater Boston Labor Council: "I hear Schlesinger and Kissinger, and I say, 'Hey, you're not speaking...
THERE WAS ONE peculiar thing about many of these houses: curious ornaments under their eaves, a kind of gingerbread or lathed dowel work created when the houses were built in the eighties or nineties by, we fantasized, a craftsman who while still a boy had come back from Lee's troops--Lee's Miserables, as one good Baptist preacher punned--or Johnson's, retreating north from Sherman. (Sherman's Memoirs, horribly written, in a thick green volume with the general's stars on the spine, talks about approaching Exeter...