Word: cloth
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Semi-cease-fire in the South Everybody stood up, held both hands, and was waving and yelling." So said Gladys Wright, a cloth inspector at a J.P. Stevens & Co. mill in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., describing the scene last week in the local high school's auditorium. Allowed to vote as a result of a hard-fought union-management agreement, 900 Stevens employees unanimously approved the first collective-bargaining contract between the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and the nation's No. 2 textile maker, which has led labor's enemies list for nearly two decades. Stevens...
...Wedekind, is the central point; the sexual impulse is merely a force, and as a force has no moral content; it should be recognized as such, and neither hidden nor judged; it is as likely to produce Death as Life--Eros and Thanatos, warp and woof of the same cloth...
Drawing on the cheap labor of immigrants from New Bedford and Portugal were the Cambridge furniture, rubber, oil cloth and pork-packing industries. A few workers had skills as woodworkers or typesetters, but a majority of the 3000 Portuguese living in East Cambridge then were unskilled; the men earned about $12 a week, the women about half that. InThe Zone of Emergence,the Portuguese problems are catalogued...
...hanging out to dry; Coco at work in the pharaoh's palace, trying to sweep up hundreds of frogs with a dustpan and broom), but nothing can redeem Wholly Moses! from its destiny of eternal mirthlessness. It is a tattered Torah indeed, a comedy made out of hole cloth...
...first sight, the Dinner Party appears a typical banquet, each setting with porcelain flatware, a translucent chalice, and a goldedged napkin. The plates, however, jump off the stark white table cloth, vivid, enthusiastic and colorful, exuding female sexuality. Beneath each plate, an elaborately hand-embroidered runner illustrates the life of the guest at that place. Continuing the symbolism of the plate, the runners illustrate in the art-forms of the day the lives of the women...