Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictator, had shaken clothes makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...
...stuff had to be bought and it had to be shipped. There had to be wool belly-bands for troops in the tropics, fur for Arctic troops, plenty of woolens for the British Isles. There had to be food for all in the style to which U.S. soldiers are accustomed -and lemon extract had to get to Anchorage and Eritrea on schedule, along with the lumber for barracks and gasoline for the mess stoves...
Like human beings, they showed their psychic illnesses in many ways. They developed "anxiety neuroses," their fur stood on end, they crouched, they trembled. Some refused to eat, or became food faddists. Some became catatonic cats...
Private Billy Conn, ex-light-heavyweight champion slated to fight Joe Jouis in June for the title, paid a call on father-in-law Jimmy Smith in Pittsburgh. A friend, Conn said later, had told him Smith wanted to bury the hatchet. Instead, the fur flew. Conn left his father-in-law's house with a broken hand. "Smith asked me if I was afraid of him," he explained. "I told him I wasn't afraid of anybody. Then it started." Conn went back to camp with his hand in a cast, his face scratched, his bout with...
Norman Hartnell, Ltd., the much publicized couturiers who designed Queen Elizabeth's gowns for her visit to the U.S. in 1939, were fined $2,400 in London for breaking England's wartime laws limiting fur sales...