Word: angora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oblivious of this fact, Radcliffe girls got out their Angora mittens, motorists got out the chains and the anti-freeze, and Terence O'Reilly '19, night watchman of the Public Waterworks of Weston, prepared himself with...
...late honorable Harvey I, a 20-pound Angora buck rabbit that romped the nursery confines for two years, was rushed to the Belmont Animal Hospital last week for an operation on a paw infection. But nothing could be done for the prostrate rabbit...
...cardigan sweater from Britain's Angora Rabbit Society...
...with an Angora Cap. While the Cabinet Mission still talked with India's leaders, a meeting was held in the courtyard of Anglo-Arabic College across Delhi from the Viceroy's palace. Green and white banners flaunted unacademic slogans: "Pakistan or die," "We are determined to fight." The speeches were equally inflammatory. Said Abdul Qaiyum Khan from the North-West Frontier Province: "I hope the Moslem nation will strike swiftly before [a Hindu] government can be set up in this country. . . . The Moslems will have no alternative but to take out their swords." Said Sirdar Shaukat Hyat Khan...
...presiding officer was neither shocked nor carried away by the incendiary speeches. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, clad in black angora cap, a long black sherwani (tunic), and tight-fitting black churidar on his wire-thin legs, smiled his ice-cold smile. He was at the peak of his power. He was the man who might say whether one-fifth of the world's people would be free. His 5 ft. 11 in. and 119 Ibs. stood between India and independence...