Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire was first spotted by four Cambridge moppets and before it was over, 10 engines were on the scene. Firemen attributed their difficulty in fighting the bloke to the fact that the burning wool emitted smoke instead of burning cleanly...
This is all very pleasant reading, to be sure. But what Mr. Danzig and most of his confreres apparently did not take into account was the fact that this was a real dyed-in-the-wool upset. It was not, as some would have it, the first exhibition of a superb, polished, brutal machine, squashing an inferior opponent. It was an example of what weeks of bruising work can do for blocking and tackling and a man's physical condition; it was an example of what is usually defined as "being up for a game...
...election night drunken wool-hatters and their blowzy, sweating women careened down the corridors of Atlanta's Ansley Hotel, howling and whooping. In Room 723, Hummon and his handsome second wife, Betty, listened to the returns. As the results from the back counties came in, they told the story. By midnight Hummon had an unbeatable lead over Acting Governor Melvin Thompson (who had prevented Hummon from taking over by force 19 months...
...Long Shadow. The 30-line statement barely hinted at what a colossus IAPI has become. Founded in 1946 to promote foreign trade, IAPI now handles every principal Argentine export except wool. It makes all purchases abroad for the billion-dollar five-year plan; it is the importing agency for private industries. Through its system of subsidies, it regulates domestic food prices...
Soon, Angus was holding his own sgeulachlan, and his fame spread through Benbecula. Neighbors began coming from miles around to his stone farmhouse on the moors. There, in the smell of burning peat and freshly woven wool, Angus would begin his tales. And everyone would listen, including his wife, though she had heard all his stories before...