Word: wool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juneau's flag bridge, Admiral Higgins was wrapped snugly in a wool-lined sea jacket. A veteran destroyer man whose steel blue eyes are set deeply in a reddish tan face with a hard strong jaw, he commands four U.S. warships...
Counterintelligence. In Raleigh, N.C., G.I.s of the North Carolina Military District were issued sun helmets and heavy wool scarves...
...country inn a hundred miles from Dublin, and the next morning, half-dressed, badly in need of a pickup, lectures the peasantry in the bar on gentlemanly behavior. Another story tells how little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little suit fitted perfectly and on the following Sunday Jimmy was the envy of all the other...
...coats, a waterproof trench coat is all that either tourists or natives find necessary. One wool sweater will come in handy, particularly-in England...
...stand outside Manhattan's famed old Trinity Church, Shoeshiner Sam Angarenti cast a glum eye on the Wall Street brokers, clerks and messengers who were hurrying to work in the drizzling rain. Yanking his fuzzy wool cap down tighter over his ears, Sam cursed the weather and bad business. "Nobody wants to get a shine any more," he growled, "but I guess they're making money over there...