Word: unshorn
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...divulges economic, political, financial, military or industrial data which even though not secret are not yet intended for publication." Said an editor of a Buenos Aires financial paper: "From now on I won't even be able to estimate the wool we have on the backs of our unshorn sheep...
...Unshorn head were raised hastily from the fine print of Widener thumb-marked volumes yesterday afternoon as annoyed scholars became suddenly aware of insistent car-honking directly outside the library on Massachusetts Avenue...
...this process an imitation beaver coat retailing at about $150-less than one-fourth the cost of genuine beaver-can be made from shorn sheep pelts. Unshorn skins can be converted into longhaired "furs" such as fox, complete with silvery sheen. The manufacturers even talk of imitating mink. The synthetic furs are more durable than the genuine article...
Neither hot, arty nor unshorn, TIME holds no brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da Vinci would shrug, smile, disagree with Reader Sullivan...
...Samson complex, or the belief that unshorn locks and bearded checks will aid an aspirant to examination honors is the most frequently observed oddity of local scholars. Associated with this habits is the custom of wearing the same the and sitting in the same beat during tests. Almost two out of five fall victims to this Idiosucracy...