Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your sheep's wool coat...
Like other Congresses, the 80th had been petty on occasion, had politicked often. It had jammed through the wool bill, a piece of old-line protectionism which the President properly vetoed. The Senate's bitter fight over confirmation of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long...
...graduating Class of 1948, they are: Alma Cecile Benson of Middletown, Connecticut; Janice Alerta Berg of Brookline; Amy Ruth Cline of Brookline; Helene Pauline Katz of New York City; Sara Murdock Steinberg of Cambridge; Gladys Marilyn Susman of Brookline; Helen Bryna Wiseman of Mattapan; and Sandra Lee Wool of Uniontown, Pennsylvania...
...across; yet there were no visible herdsmen. A sentry fired into the flock. One of the dark objects in the moat erupted in a geyser of flame and water. Then men on the wall witnessed an amazing thing: some of the sheep seemed to be flipping off their black wool skins and running away on their hind legs...
...through the hot morning they streamed into Baton Rouge-wool-hatted farmers, "Cajuns" with whiskey on their hips, gamblers, cattlemen, oilmen, old folks and bobby-soxers. They came by train, bus, automobile and even on yachts. The Longs were coming back into power: Huey's greying, gravel-voiced brother Earl was being inaugurated governor of Louisiana...