Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helen Elphick stands in the rain at the edge of a 6-ft. pile of cow dung, feeding two grotesque pigs, both part wild boar. Inside the smoky communal hut, couples in hides and rough wool garments squat around the fire, spit-roasting a heavy pork leg and preparing sausages and black pudding made from skin, offal and gut. John Rossetti sheds his clothes, steps into a wood tub and begins to scrub off five days' grime with clay and hot water. John Rockcliff enters through the goatskin door, carrying a rat he has caught. It will...
...Celtic crafts and culture. One couple, with the commune's only children, three boys, braved it for much of the year but quit the experiment several months ago. The others have stayed on, raising crops and livestock, making pottery, cooking Iron Age food and spinning and weaving wool sheared from their own sheep...
...bamboo poles, biodegradable tees, and ammonium chloride balls allow the winter golfer to frolic in the snow in relative comfort. Such devices, of course, might alarm golfing traditionalists. Died in the wool golfers would be likely to concur with the judgment of "Firey," the legendary Musselburgh caddie, who when the first golf bag was introduced in Scotland in 1888 remarked that it was "nae gowf...
Around him, miners nod their heads in agreement. Many of them are sons of coal miners and fervently believe that only the United Mine Workers protects them from the same kind of exploitation suffered in the pits by their fathers and grandfathers. Dressed in blue jeans and plaid wool shirts, many of the miners spend lots of time these days in the Cabin Creek Coffee House. It is a warm and welcome refuge from the coal-dust-blackened slush outside and the dispiriting sight of the empty coal hoppers-as idle as the miners-on the railroad tracks across...
...real sweater girl...And I'd like to pull the wool over your eyes...