Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meson lab's tubes. Fitted with a small leather harness to which a strong, lightweight string was attached, Felicia unhesitatingly scurried the full length of the tube. She delivered her end of the string to workmen, who tied it to a swab consisting of a brush and cloth soaked in cleaning fluid. The swab was then pulled back through the length of the pipe, leaving the interior immaculate...
Most grotesque was Roy Bracher, who wore steel-reinforced wings, a bird mask, flippers with claws painted on them, and feathery strips of cloth sewn onto his Mickey Mouse T shirt. Stephen Crouch, dressed as a witch, launched himself on a broomstick. Both plummeted into the water. David Fenwick, a country club owner, sported the most substantial pair of wings: they were 30 feet across, made of spinnaker nylon and spruce and weighed 60 lbs. Fenwick fell like a stone...
OVER the rivers and down the highways and along countless jungle paths, the population of East Pakistan continues to hemorrhage into India: an endless unorganized flow of refugees with a few tin kettles, cardboard boxes and ragged clothes piled on their heads, carrying their sick children and their old. They pad along barefooted, with the mud sucking at their heels in the wet parts. They are silent, except for a child whimpering now and then, but their faces tell the story. Many are sick and covered with sores. Others have cholera, and when they die by the roadside there...
Karamojong women may sport a beaded apron or cowhide mini-breech-cloth, but the men will suffer nothing more than metal bangles or an eagle's feather in the hair, earrings and a few copper neckbands. Concerned that such casual garb would make Uganda appear backward, the country's ebullient President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, decreed that the tribesmen should don shirts, trousers and shoes. The order struck the Karamojongs as an act of naked repression. Village chiefs who tried to read Amin's declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests...
...name is Adam Stein, and he is a kind of W.C. Fields of the Jews. Once he was Europe's greatest clown, and more than that, a clairvoyant who could tell the history of anybody in the audience from a piece of cloth held in his hand, read whole books through their covers, and even, just by looking into a man's eyes, tell that he had quarreled with his wife the night before. Chatting about a movie, he would automatically register that the hero spoke 4,266 words of dialogue (v. the heroine...