Word: wools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubirosa, Manhattan's flossy Dunhill Tailored Clothes, Inc. phoned Rubi's high-salaried ($600,000 a year) nightclubbing buddy, Lieut. General Rafael Trujillo Jr., who agreed that his wardrobe needed a little touching up, ordered himself: 14 single-breasted herringbone and plaid suits ($285 each); four Saxony wool sports coats ($196 each); 10 sports shirts ($20 to $30 apiece); 24 dress shirts ($33 each); 50 neckties ($7.50 each); four pairs of English worsted flannel slacks ($88 each...
...Jumblatt controls 20 villages and an army of about 2,000 wool-capped tribesmen who carry grenades slung from belts and watch fobs, and shoulder Italian submachine guns as casually as hoes. Tall, thin, hawk-nosed, and dressed in slightly rumpled grey suit, Jumblatt himself is a somewhat intellectual mountaineer who studied in Paris, served as a Socialist Deputy and minister in Beirut, took up Gandhian philosophy after a visit to India in 1951, and last year walked out in disgust from Nasser's Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo on realizing that it was Communist...
Over the rigid shoulders of a line of Venezuelan soldiers at Maiquetía Airport, streams of spittle arced through humid sunlight, splattered on the neatly pressed grey suit of the Vice President of the U.S. and on the red wool suit of his wife. But worse was in store: less than an hour later Dick and Pat Nixon brushed close to injury and possibly death in violence-torn streets of Caracas, last stop on their eight-nation visit to South America...
...House, the island legislative building that serves as temporary headquarters for the new West Indies Federation, a packed chamber of officials had been waiting for half an hour, sweating in white wool wigs and red and black robes. The princess walked to the speaker's platform and eased into the bliss of an "air-conditioned" chair. While the pipes underneath blew cool air up around her, Margaret read the Queen's congratulations and her own on the new union. Prime Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams responded, and with this the federal legislature, elected March 25, was inaugurated...
...printing-press inflation to pay the bills, lower dollar income because of the unsold coffee. Brazil's sober O Estado de São Paulo mourned that "even a frost of catastrophic proportions would not solve Brazil's coffee problems." In the same gloomy key, a Uruguayan wool exporter said: "Only another Korean war could save...