Word: wool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from recommending that farm subsidies, on which the U.S. is now spending $3.1 billion a year, be cut back, Johnson warned that the removal of price props "would have a catastrophic effect on farm income." He urged that present programs for wheat, feed grains, cotton, tobacco, rice and wool "be extended and improved." He also said that additional programs for other commodities are in the works and that "recommendations will be made as circumstances may require...
...particularly warm sweater this year is "boiled wool," in which a large sweater is preshrunk to wearable size, increasing the density of the material in the process...
...Glow. They lined up and began the long march past the reviewing stand at the White House, which was walled by bulletproof glass and rimmed with scores of guards. Lady Bird was in a brilliant red dress and matching coat, Muriel Humphrey in a light-blue wool dress she had made herself. Both men's faces glistened in the glow of spotlights, giving them the look of a ruddy tan. And both seemed extraordinarily happy. Johnson appeared to recognize at least one individual in each of the 50 states' flotillas. Now he clapped heartily, now he smiled...
...that Johnson has pulled the wool over even your usually very perceptive eyes...
...mystification. He brings the playgoer through the Nietzschean revelation that "God is dead" to the Sartrean discovery of the absurdity of existence. Albee adds that man creates God in his own image, a profundity he presumably shares with many sophomores, past and present. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool)? rang with the brassy gong of reality; Tiny Alice is a tinny allegory...