Word: fabric
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...then the glaring sun disappeared over the shoulders of the trumpeters on the crest of the stadium, the countdown to the opening ceremony picked up steam (Athens 1896, Paris 1900...Barcelona 1992), and the show was under way. In moments the stadium found itself sheathed in fabric of the five Olympic colors as members of five different tribes poured out and flew down onto the field. Little white sprites appeared, dancing to the irresistible beat and weaving their way through the tribes. Out of the delirious chaos came a formation, and presto, the tribes became the Olympic rings, and then...
...fabric may save swimmers crucial micro-seconds. Swimsuits coated with water-repellent resins have been developed independently at Speedo International and Tyr. The resins give the suits a silklike effect by reducing the rippling that occurs in human skin. Speedo has supplied its suits, which feature distinctive stripes of the new material and include knee-length versions, to teams in 46 countries, and a few swimmers may make a splash with them in Atlanta...
...sure bets to win a gold. Instead, to everyone's astonishment, he scotched his first three attempts, ignominiously booting himself from the competition. This was more than simply the single biggest track-and- field failure of the entire Olympics; it was also a rent in the cosmic fabric, a mishap as inconceivable as A.J. Foyt's pulling his car out of the garage and backing over the family cat. The fans in Barcelona sat in shocked silence, then proceeded to whistle him out of the stadium--Europe's equivalent of a Bronx cheer. The debacle was so startling that some...
...remember the first shirt I acquired in college. The black ink on white fabric design that commemorated a week of sweating and cutting weeds in an overgrown lot in Roxbury gave an auspicious start to my collection...
Much as the Depression bequeathed to our parents a reflexive economic insecurity, so too the late 1960s left many of us with a permanent sense of how violently our country's social fabric could unravel under stress. Though with time the healing would come, it has never quite wiped away the memory of our classmates' blood on the steps of University Hall...