Word: furs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They awoke to a clear, bitter-cold Wednesday. Ike put on his old battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in a little L19 Cessna for a look at the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (where he asked about the capabilities of MIGs), then on to a briefing at the 1st Marine Division's command post, six miles from the front and well within ground-shaking distance of Marine artillery...
...music critic of Washington's tabloid Daily News confined himself to a one-sentence review: "Miss Jeanette MacDonald, wearing a shimmering cocktail dress, a six-foot-long fur piece and a hat with feathers, sang at Constitution Hall yesterday...
...pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack. There they fasten themselves to one of 13 pinhead teats and are nourished for two months while they grow to the size of young rats. Outside the pouch, they are carried about clinging to their mother's fur and hair...
Early in the evening, Charlotte De Monte, Radcliffe '55, lost a valuable brown mouton fur coat out of the Adams downstairs coatroom. She immediately notified University and Cambridge police, but held only little hope of getting the coat back...
...boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...