Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opened deep gaslies in the fabric of American society, reintroduced massive dissent and at times rebellion, and helped for many to undermine the basis of the American social order...
...attorney who works with the Massachusetts Advisory Council on Home and Family. "Rights to property or continuity of residence have never been defined." When a child inherits money, his legal interests are usually protected by court order. Yet in a divorce, complains Los Angeles Attorney Eisler, where the entire fabric of a child's life is involved, "the husband and wife are entitled to counsel, but not the children...
...design. Typical is the exaggeratedly baroque fruitings and blossomings of what appears, on an early 18th century brocade, to be the Garden of Eden, seen against a blue satin sky. But with chasubles, a different convention arose. This sprang from the tailors' way of seaming together strips of fabric, which were then reinforced with a decorative vertical band called an orphrey. Orphreys might be relatively simple-as on the Met's heavily restored 14th-15th century Spanish chasuble, with its complex design of formalized pomegranates in woven velvet split by an embroidered ornamental band with figures...
...slick vinyl fabric offers too little resistance to slides when a skier falls. In Switzerland alone seven Europeans clad in wet-look outerwear have slid to their deaths over ledges and into crevasses...
...simply cannot divorce rape from the fabric of a society, where on the top of the newspaper page you read about a nation we have been raping for years, and on the bottom you read about hitchhiking murders," Shield said...