Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them as a sort of bribe to entice people to talk to me. I had to establish my innocent intentions to these people who were so suspicious of outsiders. The woman who owned the store, wearing shabby modern clothes rather than the traditional bulky skirt and heavy woolen top of the Quechua Indians, handed me the peanuts wrapped in a piece of newspaper. She then moved quickly to the other side of her stall, barely acknowledging my gracias...
...raising to his lips, and, holding it out, beckoned to me to come and drink. I walked over and took the bottle. The man in the center laughed mischievously, showing broken yellow teeth that seemed out of place in his face, which appeared so innocent because of the childish woolen cap he wore. Many of the men and boys wear this traditional protection against the cold. It looks something like the flight cap of a World War I flying ace, with flaps pulled down over the ears. "Que es?" --What is it? I asked gamely enough, as I looked...
...colliery welfare building in the Nottingham-Midlands coal field looked like a converted high school gymnasium. After an hour and a half downstairs of lager and bitter at a small communal bar, the miners filed into the room, noisy and nervous. Pea green was the color in vogue and woolen socks topped off waterlogged boots. A few sport jackets, an occasional tie, and two or three old brown frayed Stetsons dotted the crowd...
Clad in two sweaters, a woolen coat and a flamboyantly flowing scarf, Mrs. Mary Kearns was making her customary grand entrance on New York City's Great White Way. Dreamily murmuring about the Queen of England and other famous folks whom she had never known, she settled her diminutive form on one of the concrete flower boxes on an island in the middle of Times Square. Oblivious to the shouts and screeches of one of the world's busiest intersections, she did not notice the gang of young toughs approaching her. Then one of the gang shoved...
...stainless-steel belt that monitors pollution. For the woman who likes jewelry and is uncertain where she will be sleeping next, there is the "wild oats sowing kit"-a silver and brass pendant containing a Dialpak of contraceptive pills. For those bothered by walking in cold places, there are woolen socks heated by a battery...