Word: woolen
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When, as a youngster, Hugh Jackman crossed the street on his way to school, he would doff his little blue woolen cap to the drivers who stopped for him. It's not that he is excessively well-mannered, although he is, or that he grew up in a particularly genteel part of Sydney, Australia, although he did. It was one of the school's rules. And Jackman, who went on to be head boy of his expensive, tradition-bound school (students there still wear kilts), was always the type who played by the rules...
Apart from the soulful brown eyes, there is scarcely any resemblance between the vibrant young woman in the pictures and the woman who now stands outside the Holyoke Gate, shrunken, in her woolen coat...
When the venerable outdoor-clothing maker Woolrich began selling online three years ago, it moved more of its signature red-and-black buffalo-plaid woolen hunting gear than ever before. Today its website is its fastest-growing sales channel, gaining rapidly on sales through catalogs and stores. But the firm, based in Woolrich, Pa., has stopped taking orders from abroad. Overseas online orders proved "nonprofitable," says Bruce Heggenstaller, vice president of operations and distribution. "We experienced credit-card fraud, mail fraud and hidden shipping and duty fees...
...market, just down the hill from the hotel in the center of town. There is perhaps no more colorful market in East Timor. Out front, Timorese ponies are parked five to a row. In the back, roosters fight to the death, egged on by craggy mountain men dressed in woolen shawls and wide-brimmed hats. In the market, women sell everything from palm wine and shags of wild tobacco to the beautifully handwoven rugs and blankets known as tais. Don't expect to haggle over prices. The recent introduction of the U.S. dollar as the country's official currency...
...fortress gates. From the minivans jumped nine American special-operations men wearing wraparound sunglasses and baseball caps and carrying snub-nosed M-4 automatic rifles. The Land Rovers disgorged six British SAS soldiers armed with M-16s and dressed in jeans, sweaters, Afghan scarves and pakuls, the distinctive woolen hats of the Afghan mujahedin. The Americans and British quickly convened a conference with the Alliance leaders. "I want satcom [satellite communications] and JDAMS [guided munitions]," said the American commander. "Tell them there will be six or seven buildings in a line in the southwest half. If they can hit that...