Word: choosier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...
With this assorted alliance. Premier de Gasperi won decisively last time because the issue was basic and clear: De Gasperi or Communism. In this election the Christian Democrats cannot count on the same urgent fear of the Red menace; Italians may have become choosier, and the alternatives are more numerous...