Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mickens who first welcomed Author Rawlings to Cross Creek. "She came walking toward me in the grove one bright sunny December day. . . . She walked like a very young woman and walks so to this day. She is getting on to seventy. . . . She was dressed neatly in calico with a handkerchief bound around her head, bandana fashion. She was a rich smooth brown. . . . She said: 'I come to pay my respecks. I be's Martha. Martha Mickens. I wants to welcome you. Me and my man, Old Will, was the first hands on this place. . . . It's home...
...wrist knife strapped to the wrist with the hilt downwards; a knife hung around the neck; a small revolver held up the sleeve by rubber bands; a stiletto with a nine-inch blade. Other useful weapons : a hammer, cheese-cutters (wires with wooden handles, handy for garroting) ; a handkerchief with a fistful of sand in it. Besides blankets, extra socks, binoculars, rifles, burnt cork to blacken the face, etc., an important part of the equipment is 25 to 30 yards of fishline. This has many uses: to tie up an enemy, to set off a booby trap. The booby trap...
...jacaranda wood table in Itamaraty Palace, the delegates gathered to announce the compromise resolution. His face ash-grey with disappointment, chainsmoking, Sumner Welles leaned forward with his head on three fingers of his left hand. From time to time he carefully mopped his forehead with a folded handkerchief. Chile's Rossetti continually and nervously smeared his hand over his sweaty face. Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú clasped and unclasped his hands with a prayerlike gesture, toyed with a large ring on the third finger of his left hand...
...tons of tin plate allocated for Latin America, new allocations of "20 essential agricultural and industrial chemicals," besides farm equipment, iron and steel products. When he spoke of the "shibboleth of classic neutrality," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú wiped his face with his handkerchief. When the Under Secretary concluded with a ringing declaration that democratic ideals "will yet triumph," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú fanned himself, being careful to use a scratch pad and not a copy (translated into Spanish) of Mr. Welles's speech...
Prices hit moderate boom levels: $3.50 a night for a bathless room in Kodiak's lone hotel; $20 a month for a tar-paper shack; $65 a month for an unfurnished, one-room, kitchenette and bath apartment in Fairbanks; 10? for laundering a handkerchief; 50? for a bottle of milk in Nome, where there was one lone cow for the entire populace...