Word: elasticizing
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Using his laboratory expertise, Bjorn-Larsen developed a way to bind the chemical polyvinyl chloride to elastic girdle fabric and thereby make the inner cuffs of the garment sticky enough to hold up stockings. In 1965 Munsingwear, a major clothing manufacturer and maker of the familiar Penguin shirts, signed a...
The city was devastated by mortar and automatic weapons duels. Sunlight leaks through bullet holes in the roof over an outdoor bar at the Hotel Chadian, as guests sip drinks beside an empty swimming pool. Traffic winds slowly through the rubble-strewn commercial district along Charles de Gaulle Avenue, where...
Herbert Howe embodies his own belief that human limitations are elastic, and that people can usually accomplish more than they think. In January, 1977, when he decided he could no longer go on with chemotherapy, "there was the implication from my doctors that I might die" without treatment, he says...
Lennon loved language, the sounds and rhymes and elastic elusiveness of words, and, like a dandy with a lace handkerchief, he liked to keep a pun up his sleeve. The early songs, all written in collaboration with Paul McCartney, were playful, ebullient, rich in imagination. On his own, Lennon planed...
Though the back is thus elastic, its parts are in delicate balance; any damage in one area can disrupt the whole complex machinery. Sometimes the trouble starts in youth. If one leg, for instance, grows significantly longer (more than half an inch) than the other-a not infrequent occurrence -it...