Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is basically a mutual get-acquainted session. Says Wilson: "We admire you so much?we both are dyed-in-the-wool Republicans." Strickler notes that he was at the Shoreham on election night...
...Please remove the wool from your economic eyes. 'Your article on the causes and cures of inflation [April 8] had only one significant statement regarding our present predicament: "In the U.S., the avowedly conservative Nixon presidency has piled up cumulative deficits of about $120 billion, the highest of any peacetime Administration in history...
...sculptor), often in nearby villages; they ran a printing press and cultivated their rich farm land. The brothers of Taizé took no formal vows, but pledged themselves to celibacy, community of goods (both property and talents), and "acceptance of authority." They dressed plainly, as laymen, donning their white wool robes only for communal worship. The community grew modestly, selecting only a few of the many who sought to join...
...workers in the textile mills of Lawrence struck in protest against a cut in hourly pay imposed by the wool trust. They had ample reason to rebel. Child labor was usual, disease was rampant, and both wages and working conditions were deteriorating. Soon after the strike began, Massachusetts sent in militia to harass the workers and to break the Industrial Workers of the World strike. Large numbers of these troops were Harvard students whom President Lowell released from finals in order to protect the property of his fellow textile magnates. As an aristocratic Boston observer noted at the time. "They...
...they deserve. Western critics might denounce him too, if anyone cared. The diatribe in Jenmin Jih Pao specifically cited Respighi's symphonic poem, Pines of Rome for stimulating "empty talk about changes in contrasts and emotions" which tries to "gloss over the class content.... so as to pull the wool over the eyes of the masses and deceive them...