Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wax Slippers for Fleas...
...solution is to make wax slippers for the insect, then remove them after the leap and use them as yardsticks to measure the distance...
...Kleppe, head of the Small Business Administration, does not fit the cautious mold of the Washington bureaucrat. A self-made North Dakota business success (Glass Wax), he keeps a pair of six guns mounted on an office wall, wears electric blue shirts with dazzling horseshoe cufflinks, speaks bluntly −and is now taking some perhaps inevitable lumps. Kleppe's most recent troubles began when he went to Congress to ask for an expansion of SB A lending authority from $4.3 billion to $6.6 billion. He ran into a barrage of allegations that suggested an embarrassing range of SBA malfeasance...
Allen discourses with equal ease about walruses and carpenters, shoes and ships, and, yes, sealing wax, about profits and prophets and peaceful coexistence (the Quakers invented the notion), countinghouses and fo'c'sles. Finally, in a chapter that begins on page 210, this whole sea catalogue reaches the subject announced in the second half of its subtitle: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet...
Since this is supposedly a fable now is time to wax philosophical and draw political ramifications from this story, plaining how this all ties in to putting Christ back in Christmas, and crush Nixon's empire. But I think all that is fectly clear. What isn't so clear is war happened to Miss Davis...