Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has come," said Mrs. Parsons pointing to a large wicker hamper containing the signatures of 210,000 women (30,000 U. S., 180,000 Japanese) "to lay another stone on the edifice of peace...
...modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements to Mexico City, where it ranks next to bullfighting; to Havana, where...