Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubled textile industry, double knit clothes-apparel made of specially knitted material instead of woven cloth-stand out like a bright golden thread in a frayed gray shawl. The upheaval caused by double knits has brought fresh earnings and excitement to the industry, created new textile firms and technology, provided a rich source of sales for profit-parched merchants, and satisfied restless consumer demand for increasingly varied fashions...
...word was still the same last week when U.S. Ambassador-at-Large David Kennedy and Kakuei Tanaka, head of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), met in Tokyo to initial an agreement severely restricting Japanese textile sales to the U.S. Exports of synthetic garments and cloth will be permitted to rise only 5% and exports of woolens only 1% annually for the next three years. Even that limit may not be reached, because the pact also contains strict item-by-item regulation of 18 specific categories of products; it allows the Japanese almost no freedom...
...know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting to sound humble and folksy (''Pat doesn't have a mink coat, but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat"), all the while struggling grimly to look natural, Nixon seems to emerge as the kind of bunko artist of whom W.C. Fields always ran afoul...
...first game of the World Series was cut from the same cloth. Baltimore's McNally was near the top of his form, striking out nine, allowing the Pirates only three hits and no earned runs, and at one point retiring 19 batters in a row. The Pirates scored first and early, stealing three runs on one hit in the second inning after a walk, a wild pitch and two errors by the usually impeccable Baltimore defense. But in the Baltimore half of the same inning, Frank Robinson opened with a home run off Pittsburgh Starter Dock Ellis...
...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...