Word: lumberjacket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that were not consolation enough, Pierre was summoned by Quitte ou Double Listener René Billères, Minister of National Education. Pierre showed up straight from his welding classes, a scarf and lumberjacket hiding his work shirt. The minister proposed a scheme to circumvent his own system, suggested that Pierre work with two specially assigned teachers to prepare for college entrance and practical lab work. Said Minister Billères: "You are free to accept or not." Chemistry Whiz Pierre needed no time for qualitative or quantitative analysis. "I accept," said he. "This will allow me to catch...
...somehow his wonder and delight in the things he discovers make them treasures to millions who know how dearly come by are such things as wonder and delight. Besides, there is always the chance that, when he comes bursting out of the next bush, face all scratched and lumberjacket full of stickers, he may be clutching in his hand some truly precious thing: perhaps, who knows, as precious as-a mouse...
...never seen anything quite like Shuman. It had been headed by such men as Gladstone and Asquith, had been the training ground of hundreds of M.P.s, had heard the best brains of Britain in its debates. But never had it seen anyone rise in debate garbed in a U.S. lumberjacket and red baseball cap, and self-billed as "the original public schoolboy-from the public schools of Morrison, Illinois...
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