Word: fabricate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come home from hell and find us full of lassitude and complacency and you want to kick our teeth in. We can see your point. Can you see our point? We originally were made of the same fabric. Yours is maybe now a little tattered. But it can be mended. We can meet on a common plane if you will understand us too. We are the reality. The scene of battle is in an obscure past. We are the future, your future. You had better accept us and our frailties and our good intentions...
...School's Laundry announces its new method of doing shirts. Boiled down, the system is just this: Shirts are first dunked very quickly into a weak solution of water and soap. Then said shirts are run through a shredder which makes the fabric more comfortable for summer wear by virtue of the long gashes made all over the body of the shirt. Then various solutions of chemicals are sprayed indiscriminately over the shirt until various discolorations and bleachings appear. Then the shirts are ready for pressing. This is the novel operation of the system. The shirts...
...Torn Fabric. Rumors aside, the admitted facts added up to an Army crisis of the utmost gravity. If even a small percentage of officers had been affected, then German fighting power was far more seriously weakened than if all those officers had been lost in a single day of combat in the field. Germany's is a close-textured Army; a few threads plucked from it could destroy the fabric, especially when it is stretched taut over three fronts...
...silk, rayon or nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...
Poor leadership, which causes unnecessary casualties and "a weakness of the whole fabric of the fighting Army" will have to be eliminated, says Baldwin, before western Europe is invaded. According to Baldwin this major job must first be done: "the unfit, inept, 'stuffed-shirt' and inefficient leaders [must be replaced] with good leadership . . . to build up a pride of outfit in the country's many untested divisions, the divisions that on the war's greatest D-day will hold the future in their hands...