Word: wool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the help of Rural Development, many farmers are learning to be better farmers. In Lewis County, W. Va., Rural Development last year helped twelve farmers buy 146 Western ewes. In one season they made enough from their lambs and wool to pay back the loan, this year will pocket a sizable profit from their almost vertical hillside pastures...
...prodigious drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday costume of the Donets worker of his day, he was often seen around the taverns, downing yorsh and saying: "Beer's all right for the Germans, but vodka's the stuff for Russians...
...this country and natters the administrators of this program. Sooner or later, however, the people of this country will pay a terrible price for this unmitigated folly." Herman Talmadge settled for less erudition and more emotion. Warming up to the spellbinding oratory that used to send his Georgia wool hats whooping and stomping, the freshman Senator spelled out what he declared to be specific flaws. "While many of our farmers cannot get their crops to market over muddy roads," said Farmer Talmadge, "we build a huge six-lane turnpike in Portugal to a gambling resort. We have sent opera singers...
...portray the University of Texas Negro coed as an innocent lamb shorn of her wool. Ten to one she was a plant, and the campus Commies and associates worked diligently to plant her there...
...Madras cottons and squeezing India out of the textile market in East Africa and Ceylon. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru could hardly be expected to welcome a challenger to his dream of being leader of Free Asia. When Kishi set down last week in New Delhi, wearing a black wool suit, the temperature was 103°, but his reception, if proper, was decidedly cool...