Word: woolen
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...Moscow's snow-clad streets celebrating infantrymen in fleece-lined leather coats and yellow fur hoods, provincial troops in worn quilted jackets and spiked woolen forage caps, Cossack officers in capes, spurred knee boots and high astrakhans would not reason with their joy. In the street, a grinning, drink-happy young man suddenly seized Tlinesman Sulzberger by the arm, exclaimed in joy and wonderment: "It is Moscow! Here we are in Moscow...
This week German civilians went to their cinemas and saw newsreels of winter on the Russian Front. They saw carloads of woolen socks and greatcoats rolling to the front through snow-covered countryside. They saw German sappers building wooden camps frankly labeled Winter Quarters, German tailors fitting fur jackets to tank crews, German kitchen police getting water by chopping holes in ice, German greaseballs sweeping snow off the wings of fighter planes...
...crumbled under his clutching hands. After a while rats began to munch at his shoes. He screamed. Still nobody came. Once in a while he could hear his mates calling him. For twelve hours he whooped and hollered and kicked at rats. Next morning he stripped off his long woolen underwear, touched a match to it. The smudge in the well got so thick he had to don his gas mask. Because smoking was strictly forbidden, an angry sergeant soon discovered him, rescued Private Sauter...
...DEPARTMENT STATEMENT ANNOUNCING TODAY THAT NEARLY 2,000,000 WOOLEN BLANKETS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY ARE TO BE PURCHASED FROM AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN DRAFTEES CAUSED WASHINGTON OBSERVERS TO COMMENT ON THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THIS ACTION AND RECENT NEWS OF THE SEIZURE BY GERMAN AUTHORITIES OF BLANKETS FROM NORWAY'S CIVILIAN POPULATION TO HELP PROTECT NAZI SOLDIERS FROM THE RUSSIAN WINTER...
Henderson's explanation for his flexible ceiling: "It is a special plan to meet a special situation." But this week businessmen wondered about the next "special situation." Good guess: woolen goods...