Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China-an omission that Brzezinski insists will soon be corrected. Still others wrote off the Notre Dame speech as an insubstantial sermon-PIETY STRIKES AGAIN, said Britain's conservative Daily Express, while even the liberal Guardian described the speech as shot through with "obscurities, ambiguities and plain cotton wool...
According to this thesis, "Hitler's was unquestionably the authority behind the expulsion [of the Jews]; on whose initiative the grim procedures at the terminal stations of this miserable exodus were adopted, is arguable." Irving believes that Heinrich Himmler und the SS "pulled the wool over Hitler's eyes," keeping him in ignorance even while the gas chambers were working at capacity. It is also possible, the author argues, that the Führer possessed a familiar characteristic of heads of state-a conscious desire "not to know", what in a later era was called deniability...
...events, Commerce!" Ideology may have impelled many Americans, but for most, it seems, it was the purse that had its reasons. Though John Cabot had scouted the shores of North America as early as 1497, the English hardly deigned to look at their discovery until after 1551 when the wool market in Antwerp fell apart. The first plantations were get-rich-quick schemes, the colonists left to fend for themselves if they did not produce a quick return on investment. Occasionally, as the book amply illustrates, the greed was enlivened by some remarkable characters, like the 18th century Governor...
...Wool--Inn Square...
...Wool--Inn Square...