Word: loomfuls
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...electric razors or Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...
...always been a great object lesson to me, a monitor of the fundamental flux, of the loom of nature not being on the human scale...
Sounds coming from Democrats in the South, however, do not indicate that conservative sentiment for Harriman will run very deep. When the New York governor began to loom as a presidential prospect, Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender cried: "Talk about giveaways; Harriman would go Eisenhower. Truman and Roosevelt one better. He would give away the Indian chief on top of the Capitol dome...
...best, Tom Barber is very good indeed-particularly in its down-to-earth descriptions of the things that loom large in every boy's life-home, parents, friends, hobbies, animals, books...
Personal and family considerations would loom larger; few if any doctors would recommend the presidency of the U.S. for a recovered coronary case; even if Ike were willing to make the sacrifice, the people would view his situation with disquiet...