Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiral, lifting the people's standard of living. This "capacity to import" is set largely by the volume of exports of farm products and minerals and the price they bring. Last year Latin Americans turned out plenty of these products, e.g., agricultural output (sugar, bananas, meat, coffee, cacao, wool) was bigger than in 1954, both total and per capita. But the prices of the exports fell so sharply (notably in coffee and cacao) that the total return dropped by nearly...
...other man-made fibers. So the Department of Agriculture reported last week after a survey of 1,751 girls aged 14 to 17. Of all teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton's 17%) and nylon leads in dress-length slips...
Poised and confident as she had been at Cortina, Tenley skated out to repeat her Olympic routine. In her gold wool jersey, she danced across the ice to the music of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Satisfied with her performance, she said: "If that doesn...
Record Jackpots. Even in his personal appearance, he violates the rules. His fingernails often need cleaning. His iron-grey hair is as wild as a wad of steel wool. He has an instinct for rumpledness, and only the crafty vigilance of his wife keeps a reasonably presentable crease in his trousers. Nearly everything about Frank John Lausche that meets the unaccustomed eye seems politically wrong, and, to hear them talk, nearly everybody in Ohio is against him. Everybody, that is, except the voters...
...President the most joyous event of the year. She drew him back from Gettysburg to the White House a day earlier than planned; she dominated the traditional holiday reception the next morning for the 700 members of the White House staff. Accompanied by Mamie Eisenhower, in a Christmas-red wool jersey dress, the President accepted congratulations beneath an 18-ft. spruce Christmas tree decorated with silver tinsel and electric candles. Everyone at the reception got a Christmas present from the new grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President started the week before his late heart attack...