Word: woof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall Street continues to woof happily on its financial looms, if the Peking and Hanoi carpetmakers can be taught to weave a softer warp, and if the Soviets don't throw their bearskin rug across more frontiers, then 1969 will be the busiest, dizziest sewing bee in European vacation history," announces the introduction to Fielding's new Guide, published last month. In that same hortatory fashion, Fielding fusses over his readers' clothes ("A sport jacket on an adult is considered improper at the leading restaurants"), warns them about con men ("No matter how dazzling the offer, puh-LEEZE...
...group with Wife Abigail and one of his chief fund raisers, Wall Street's Howard Stein, he enjoyed his favorite sports-swimming, sunbathing and needling. Said the Senator, weaving a metaphor that he picked up while campaigning in an Illinois textile mill: "Nixon doesn't have woof. Humphrey has lots of woof but no warp...
SENATOR MORSE: It is my judgment that the warp and woof of that doctrine ["Pax Americana Technocrata"] has woven our foreign policy rug. I think it pretty much outlines the foreign policy of this country today, and you take your principles and apply them to any analysis of our foreign policy and I think they are all in that...
...from clothing rubbing against the tender, stretched skin that might have become ulcerated. Though the operation to push the protruding gut back and close the rupture securely is not dangerous, it demands exquisitely delicate dissection and needlework because the muscle fibers are layered and crisscrossed like the Warp and woof of a carpet...
...Crash, a mere 1,371,920 people were, as the saying went, "playing the market." Most of these were either professional speculators or amateur gamblers who might have done better at the $2 window at the nearest race track. Today, corporate ownership through shareholding is the warp and woof of American life. Some 20,120,000 people (more than half of them women) own stocks in their own right. Another 3,600,000 participate in the market through shares in mutual funds, which themselves own $35 billion worth of common stocks. Millions more are linked to the stock market...