Word: cloth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most resonant cheer went up for a little old lady in a print dress and a cloth coat, who wrinkled her nose and shot her right fist aloft as she walked through the gate. The crowd mobbed her when she announced in a syrupy Southern drawl that her name was Nannie Leah Washburn, and that she had traveled all the way from Atlanta to lie down in front of cars in a traffic circle. "I was born a rebel and I'll always be a rebel," she croaked, and the crowd cheered with gusto. When she told them...
...most passive reduction plan yet developed occurs in the 112 Trim-A-Way figure-controlling salons across the U.S. The ingredients: strips of cloth and a secret chemical formula. The method: wrapping. The results: a guaranteed loss of two inches the first session, five by the fifth. The naked customer is marked and measured by a white-smocked technician, who then takes rolls of wet linen and firmly wraps her in oversize bandaging from the ankles up, pressing the fat upward. "It really is tight," reported an impressed client last week. "You wonder if gangrene...
...Japan's rising position in the modern industrial world. Starting from a postwar pile of rubble in a nation almost devoid of raw materials, Japan's businessmen have built an economic superpower. Today it is flooding markets from Manila to Milwaukee with shoes, ships and steel, cameras, cable, cloth and cars, transformers, TV sets, tape recorders and, of course, the ubiquitous transistor radios. To many admiring but fretful Westerners, Japan has become a corporate state, and is even referred to as "Japan...
...have to permit some nonessential industries to be overwhelmed by foreign competition. Washington at present has no overall policy, but tries to tackle trade problems one by one as they pop up. A sensible step would be to accept the Japan Textile Federation's unilateral offer to restrict cloth shipments to the U.S. It is absurd for the U.S. and Japan to squabble fiercely over textiles, because that industry is not vital to the economy of either nation. Simultaneously, the U.S. could crack down harder on dumping in several industries, perhaps by flatly embargoing shipments, though it would be much...
Understanding what it meant to be a country was possible only after those rocks called Big Sur were seen by people who should have understood what it meant to have worn cloth woven from Southern cotton. But didn't understand what it meant when they got wet and it all became California...