Word: wools
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...resentments their ancestors had brought with them soon mellowed into ineffectuality in the antipodean sun, not much more than folk costume, once the chains of convictry were abolished. As a colony, we were content peaceably to fulfill our natural destiny, which was to supply Britain with cheap wheat and wool and (when required) with cannon fodder for wars against the Boer...
Seidel, a died-in-the-wool liberal with a degree in classics from Berkeley, got his first taste of government in Washington, D.C., where he studied public policy at Georgetown and worked as an assistant to Eunice Kennedy Shriver...
...dyed-in-the-wool Red Sox fan, the other a Bronx bomber since birth; when it comes to Major League Baseball, we don’t agree on much. During the postseason, metaphorical fists fly as we gloat over our respective teams’ accomplishments and argue over who is the more valuable player: Mike Lowell or Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle or Teddy Ballgame. But there is one thing we can agree on; we both nominate Manny Ramirez and Jonathan Papelbon for 2008 Class Day Speakers...
...table, Toscani, 65, lets out a short bark of a laugh. "Our archaeologist will wonder what the hell was going on back then!" This is the perspective behind his best-known advertisements, which have featured AIDS patients and death-row inmates in marketing campaigns aimed at selling bright wool sweaters and blue jeans. "All I've done is put a news photo in the ad pages," he says...
...Square alone, there are three vintage shops to discover. The only thing that’s ever changed in Oona’s, the 35-year-old Harvard Square institution, is its daily inventory. Shelves and racks are stuffed with leather jackets, satin dresses, western-style shirts, and wool coats. Kathleen White, founder and owner, searches far and wide for every hidden treasure, which ranges from two-dollar T-shirts to pieces so rare they are only displayed by request. “I buy from everywhere—estates, dealers, auctions, right off the street...