Word: flannel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Homeowners are using both simple and desperate means to cut oil consumption, everything from buying flannel pajamas and woolen sweaters to closing off rooms .and even whole floors for the duration. In Agawam, Mass., Ernest Bleeck, 73, a retired sales manager, and his wife Mary, 66, spent $2,000 to build a greenhouse on the sunny kitchen side of their two-story frame house. In addition, they have placed several water-filled, 55-gal. barrels among their geraniums and lettuce plants where the sun will warm the water; then the warmth can flow into the house through the kitchen windows...
...Remembers Heiskell: "He was terribly proud of bringing up people, making them into something." Among his discoveries were James Agee, who became TIME'S film critic, and Sloan Wilson, who worked as Larsen's assistant and modeled his best-selling 1955 novel, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, partly on his boss. Says Wilson: "Roy had energy, courtesy, selfdiscipline. When most people were running on twelve volts, he was running on 440 volts. Asking him for a raise was like stabbing a billiard ball, but he had class. When I showed him my novel and asked...
...sepia-tinted photograph in a color-television age, a throwback to the time when ballplayers wore baggy wool flannel uniforms and played cards on lonesome train rides through the night. His square shape and scowling countenance served him poorly off the field. He could deliver the winning hit but not the winsome quote, and thus suffered in the game of personality hype, the game that, sadly, often seems to count most...
...this sounds unconventional, so is the avuncular Dreyfus, whose wife Joyce refers to him affectionately as "Flannel Mouth." After his upset victory over Democratic Incumbent Governor Martin Schreiber, he is emerging as a bright new Republican figure...
...deep, But I have promises to keep" has resonances that go far beyond the ice-glazed trees and horse-drawn carriage of this nostalgic volume. With a minimum of color and some gentle line drawings, Susan Jeffers gives her suite of illustrations a tactile quality: the driver's flannel seems as warm as cloth, and the swirling flakes bring a wintry chill and a welcome Frost to every page...