Word: feather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the whites brought hatchets from Europe did the Indians begin making tomahawks. When the whites began selling horses to the Plains Indians, they became nomadic, gave up solid wood and mud architecture and fragile pottery for easily portable tepees, skin and feather ornaments. When Spaniards introduced sheep to the Southwest, the Navahos and Pueblos learned to weave woolen blankets. When, later, tourists demanded rugs, the Navahos, who had never used rugs in their lives, began making them by the thousand...
...Corps, brave with braid. At the very front-&-centre stood the little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President's mother in a black hat, a black coat with silver-fox collar, and his wife, in a black broadtail coat and black hat with a feather. On the other side, reflectively surveying his domain, stood pink-cheeked Boss Ed Flynn. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in gleaming top hat and Chesterfield coat, thoughtfully chewing...
...must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests...
...display of downfield blocking, Stanford's Pete Kmetovic, running back Nebraska's punt, scooted over the Nebraska goal line in a 40-yd. zigzag sprint-with all of the Cornhuskers flat on their faces behind him. The Nebraskans failed to score again. So the Indians stuck another feather in their war bonnets. Score...
Last week a new comet hove into naked-eye view-that is, into the view of people with good eyes. Most observers found it better to look at through 8-power binoculars. A faint feather, the comet is crawling down the western sky, after dusk, toward the constellation of the Eagle (Aquila). It will get brighter this week and next. Toward the middle of January, if it develops as astronomers hope, Cunningham's comet should be the brightest since Halley's great comet...