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Word: wooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even the rifleman's three assistants, armed with staves, looked determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Aftermath of a Coup | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Answer: If a girl has the necessary points, it'll help. But he'll still pull the wool over her eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Know-How Woman | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Serge Koussevitzky was in his favorite summer pasture last week, and frisky as a yearling. His costume-grey flannel trousers, blue flannel jacket, white wool beret and white shoes-made him look like a jaunty boulevardier at the beach. Visitors to Tanglewood, Dr. Koussevitzky's music colony near Lenox, Mass., try to compliment the maestro by calling it "an American Salzburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tanglewood, U.S.A. | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...retailers Hubbard, promising heavy plugs on the air, seined some $560,000 in merchandise. Whoever landed a tagged fish would get $560 in prizes: a camp cook stove, camp refrigerator, utility light, aluminum lawn mower, goatskin coat, outboard motor, suit of clothes, a woman's fur coat, two wool blankets and 52 cases of Pepsi-Cola. Another $6,000 in premiums, including a new car and trailer, would go with the first fish tag ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fish Story | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...only major report on clothiers so far concerned J. Press, who attributed its $15 boost as due to increased cost of fabrics although the trade at large had not expected upped wool prices to appear in the finished product so soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lynch, Mayor of Cambridge, May Aid Buyer Strike | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

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