Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many knots in wool yarn as you have warts, place the yarn under a rock, by the time the yarn rots away, so do your warts...
Holes in the Ceiling. As usual, Congress did not forget the farmers. The lawmakers approved a three-year price-support law for wool, wheat, feed grains and cotton that will cost taxpayers just about what farm support costs them now -approximately $3.8 billion annually. For the first time Congress placed a limit, $55,000, on the amount of subsidy that a farmer may receive per crop. But that ceiling affects only about 1,100 of the nation's 3,000,000 farmers -among them, Senator James O. Eastland, who collected $146,792 during 1969 for his cotton plantation...
...Then, the second question I wanted to ask Mr. Pattakos is, here in the mountains of Northern Greece we are surrounded by sheep. The quality of both the wool and the meat seems excellent. Could you tell me what the present government is doing to improve the exports of these two commodities...
...ahead, then Tom, why don't you just get it over with, go ahead and touch it and see if it feels like wool...
...women who are too busy studying the brain to bother with sorting out such semantic eels. The big conceptual problem has been to come up with a model, or analogue, that will explain the dynamics of learning and memory. Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise. The electronic computer at first seems promising. Unhappily, though the brain generates and can be prodded by electrical impulses, the most sophisticated cybernetic device is still a primitive instrument when compared with...