Word: shetland
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...Shetland pony is a very small pony from the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. What, then, is a "mini-Shetland"? A Shetland pony that has strayed into the territory of the head-shrinking Jivaro Indians of Peru? Not quite. It's a sweater, and it's the latest style in Paris-not exactly from the showrooms of Courrèges or Balenciaga, but hard to miss on the mesdemoiselles at Castel's discothèque or in Le Drugstore on the Boulevard St. Germain...
...kidding. Grosvenor Town Coats for the modern man? The fabulous Navy Blue Cashmere Blazer at Howdy's Beefburger Drive-In? A Shaggy Pullover of Finest Shetland Island Wool at a Stones concert? So into the breach steps Mod. "Like, it just happens to correspond to my thought patterns," says Larry, "you know, the way I think...
Chicken farmers on the Orkney and Shetland islands off Scotland's northern coast were stuck with 2,000,000 eggs and no way to get them to market. On the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, potato farmers worried about how they would ship this year's crop to Britain...
...chairs at the table and only nine students. The two chairs on either side of Randall were vacant, giving the class a strained formality. After hearing the popular stories about the school's artistic sloppiness, it was surprising to see the girls neatly dressed. Many wore sweaters, mostly shetland. In front of each girl lay an orderly loose leaf notebook, into which the girls made frequent entries. Several girls kept outline notes...
...Steinkraus win the nerve-stretching ''Democrat'' Memorial Challenge Trophy* and still catch the midnight train home. Thomas also pepped up the show with a rodeo touch: cowgirls racing quarter horses around a cloverleaf barrel course. Another innovation almost anyone could have anticipated: a class for Shetland ponies. No entry named Macaroni though...