Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bamboo shades, glass doors, and a gray wall-to-wall rug are among the changes planned. Modern easy chairs and divans will replace the present furniture...
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleclc, veteran of World War II's western desert campaign, former commander in chief of British Forces in India, announced that he was going into business near Karachi, Pakistan, had already found a likely spot for his rug-weaving factory...
Money was useful to Roosevelt who kept himself busy socially. In his senior year, he owned "a cart and horse, with whip, rug, etc." He used to drive to the suburb of Chestnut Hill where he met the girl he became engaged to in his senior year...
...traditional red "sword line," set into the rug before the front benches to make sure that government and opposition are two full sword lengths apart, may once have had historical justification. But I got the feeling that today's honorable members really need armor, not in front but in back, to protect themselves from the quills of their fellow party members...
There was always a cuspidor planted on his library rug, and he could make it chime like a bell. Ladies covered their ears at his "hells" and "damns," but everybody agreed he was a stout old character. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives and his full name was John Joseph Gurney Cannon, but Americans called him "Uncle...