Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...historian William L. Shirer's memoir of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. Since then Thornwillow has published works by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Helmut Kohl. This week it brings out The Presidency by Hugh Sidey. The book is available through Thornwillow Press in New York City; $300 leather, $75 cloth...
...stench of decomposing livestock, pets and people wafted through the rubble-strewn streets of Vukovar. Through 12 weeks of fighting, 58,000 townspeople had fled. The 12,000 who remained behind cowered in the town's cellars and sewers, rolling cigarettes from tea leaves and burning strips of doused cloth for light. "This is hell," Vesna Vukovic, a Croatian television reporter, pleaded over the airwaves. "We just cannot stand it anymore...
...actors occasionally have difficulty asserting themselves amid the immense volume of stuff with which they must deal. The play ends with a huge piece of cloth covering the entire stage, in effect dwarfing and muffling the actors...
...feminist but not an ideologue in either area. "I suspect she's a card-carrying Republican," says Joel Paul, a friend who recalls arguments in which Hill would loudly support Judge Robert Bork's unsuccessful nomination to the Supreme Court. "She is cut from the same political cloth as Thomas...
...unusually malicious nature of the crime also points to an anti-Semitic motive. While the vandals left the sukkah structurally unsound, they gave no warning signals. There were no scrawled slogans, no spray-painted swastikas. There was not even any damage to the cloth walls or the bamboo roof. Such damage would have been easier to do, and would have sent a clear expression of hatred...