Word: goosedown
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...this), has fallen like a guillotine after an early winter that seemed unnaturally and irreversibly warm. What's going on? During the balmy holidays a few weeks ago, I fell into a vague sense of elegy about old-time winters, thinking they would never come again. I stored my goosedown parka in the closet with my summer clothes. I am practically sleeping in the parka...
...Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
...pleasant four hours. Good for minor to major relaxation, superb for the dentist's office. But the killer drug? Not unless you would consider a goosedown pillow, self-administered, to be a serious threat to your mind or body...
There was no way to find comfort. Liquor was out, since one nip of frigid high-proof alcohol although still liquid would freeze the mouth and throat and cause almost instant death. Swaddled in layer upon layer of goosedown and fur, the snowmobilers looked as bulky as brown bears. One driver rigged his wife's electric hair dryer into his helmet and face mask for added warmth. But nothing seemed to help much. On the second day the temperature dropped to 70° below zero. As the snowmobilers plowed ahead through Moose Creek and the village of North Pole...
Stahmann is looking beyond the mere marketing of frozen geese, is already figuring out new commercial uses for feathers and down (e.g., a goosedown powder puff), expects to sell a lot of down for army bedrolls. Eventually he thinks he may make more out of the feathers than the geese...
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