Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times Hill tested the Harvard line and failed. Right cornerback Steve Wool intervened on third down to break up a Yale pass. Yale scorned the field goal on fourth down, and Rogan once more failed to complete the pass. Finding no holes in the stiffened Harvard defense, he tossed the ball out of the end zone...
...likeliest interview subject that the No. 2 talker could come up with. We are standing in my wood lot, surrounded by beechwood slash and camera cables. Since this is a carefully produced fantasy, I am wearing a DeKalb Seed Corn baseball cap, a green-and-black checked wool shirt, Ralph Lauren gum boots, and bib overalls with an alligator on the pocket.) "I see. Can you tell me, then, what you New Hampshire locals look for in a presidential candidate...
...believe it, another cult. All I can say is Bo and Peep-with their theory of a spaceship taking apostles to the "next level" of existence [Aug. 27] -are pulling the wool over someone's eyes...
...sepia-tinted photograph in a color-television age, a throwback to the time when ballplayers wore baggy wool flannel uniforms and played cards on lonesome train rides through the night. His square shape and scowling countenance served him poorly off the field. He could deliver the winning hit but not the winsome quote, and thus suffered in the game of personality hype, the game that, sadly, often seems to count most...
...Incas were so enamored of the beast that only the royal family was permitted to eat it or wear garments made from its wool. Under such protection, an estimated population of 2 million vicunña ran wild. But after the Incas' downfall the fragile creatures fell on hard times 'too Prized for their soft, fleecy wool (now selling for $90 a lb.),* the vicuñas became the buffalo of the Andes: there were fewer than 10,000 in Peru by the late 1960s, and they were practically wiped out elsewhere...