Word: loom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy Hoffa's path left McClellan committee Senators dismayed and disgusted. "Joe Louis makes a pretty good defense attorney," snapped Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater. "A miscarriage of justice," rumbled New York Republican Irving Ives, but "Mr. Hoffa's troubles are far from ended." Ahead of Jimmy loom sessions with the McClellan committee, plus a federal trial on charges of having illegal recording devices attached to telephones in his Detroit headquarters. After Hoffa's acquittal last week, a gloomy committee staffer ventured that a forthcoming investigation of teamster links with New York labor racketeers might lead...
...boiling up several hundred sows' ears into "glue" resembling a silkworm's glandular secretion, adding acetone to make jelly, filtering and spinning under high pressure into fine "threads" hardened with chrome alum and formaldehyde, weaving on a hand loom...
...that the description of the gold-decked walls and benches of the great hall in Beowulf owed more to the unknown author's imagination than to historical fact. At Yeavering, Hope-Taylor found no trace of such gold-leaf splendors: only a few potsherds, knives, belt fittings, nails, loom weights and a single gold coin. But the finds date from the 7th century A.D.-and he feels reasonably sure that King Edwin really ruled from this barbaric palace. It may have been the actual hall where he was converted to Christianity. According to a legend repeated by the Venerable...
...custom-made copies will have been copied in their turn to sell for $49.50. and by the time the copy is copied and further simplified to reach Union Square in an $8.95 version, every stenographer will be muttering about that old thing she is wearing, and every loom from Massachusetts to Alabama, every Manhattan sewing machine and cutting table from 25th Street to 41st will be humming merrily to the tune of her discontent...
Harry Weltman, former Balwin Wallace ace, and Ronald Weekly, loom as individual threats to the Crimson defense. Weltman has averaged 35 points per game, with Weekly following with a 21 point average...