Word: wools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grew into a beautiful young woman who enjoyed playing one boy off against another. In 1948 Anne, 19, eloped with Alfred ("Kayo") Sexton, a 20-year-old college student ("Dearest Momie and Daddie-I don't know how to begin this letter"). By 1957 Kayo was a traveling wool salesman and Anne had two young daughters and a bad case of the housewife blues...
Since midsummer, a nationwide shortage of insulation, fiber glass and rock wool, has turned the fuel conservation plans of tens of thousands of other Americans into near-impossible dreams. Fiber glass today no longer comes only in the familiar batts (rolls) tacked up between wall and ceiling joists; it has also largely replaced rock wool as the preferred fluffy insulation material blown into wall spaces...
...like he fooled everybody, just pulled the damn wool over their eyes. I mean there's that first win at Columbia, which occurred so early that nobody can even remember...
Pierrot collars and flounces adorned many of Bohan's dresses, capes and blouses. For evening, there were a strapless ball gown supported by whalebone, tiered party dresses, and taffeta capes with double Pierrot collars. The knee-length daytime outfits, including simple black wool suits and Spencer jackets worn with black stockings, narrow neckties and black velvet hair ribbons, drew sustained applause from an audience that included both Madame Claude Pompidou and Bianca Jagger. Said Bergdorf Goodman President Ira Neimark, who plans to buy ten or twelve Dior ensembles for his Paris couture promotion: "Excellent-in the tradition of Dior...
...little messages" all over the place. Barbra was very peeved at the report, she says in a rambling set of liner notes. Accordingly, she set to work with Songwriters Ron Nagle and Scot Matthews on a number that "would accommodate my feelings about this kind of 'pull-the-wool-over-the-eyes-of-the-public journalism.' " As for the rest of the Superman album, what can Barbra say? Only this: "Clark Kent, eat your heart...