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Word: woolens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then she drove off with her captors. Later she was taken to Las Ventas women's prison on Madrid's outskirts. Her butler stood waiting with her "prison kit," a large suitcase containing grey flannel slacks, leather jacket, woolen undies, sleeping bag, cologne water and salmon silk pajamas. The duchess has been jailed four times since 1947, always keeps her kit ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Roundup | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...voters a second time. As always, modest, attractive Mrs. Attlee was, in the words of a friend, "quietly piloting Clem, although Clem still sits in the front seat." A suitcase was packed, gas coupons checked, road maps ready and Clem's knees were snugly wrapped in a woolen blanket as Violet swung the Hillman's nose out of Downing Street toward Watford, 17½ miles to the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clem's Chauffeur | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

They had persuaded such British artists as Sir Francis Rose, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer to contribute designs, and they hoped the high, wide & woolen results would be shown and sold in France and the U.S. as well as England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: High, Wide & Woolen | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...share of voting common stock and shares of nonvoting stock in proportion to the number of years worked in the community. Members bought their homes from the society and installed private kitchens. They went to work for wages in one of the society's 50 businesses, e.g., the woolen mill, furniture factory, open-hearth bakery, or the new refrigerator plant founded by profit-minded young Amanist George C. Foerstner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOPERATIVES: Too Much Prosperity | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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