Word: fabricate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Bogner's release as a prisoner of war (he had been an SS lieutenant), Willy and Maria bought a small factory just south of Munich, started making and selling sportswear. One day a salesman arrived with a bolt of a Swiss-patented kink-nylon and wool-yarn fabric called Helanca. It stretched up, down and sideways, then sprang miraculously back into shape. Maria ordered some and set about turning it into ski pants. Still svelte, she created a minor sensation wherever she appeared in her new stretch pants. Next year the Bogners sold only 1,000 pairs...
Nothing else remains. Two hundred seats in the orchestra have been sacrificed to afford extra leg room (the HST seats 1689 to the UT's 1889), and the new seats -- covered in a cherry-red fabric -- are of the two-speed variety; the Ladies Lounge sports a heliotrope ceiling and two comfortably overstuffed chairs done in royal mauve; a new white plastic screen replaces a sickly and silvered one (the silvering, Mr. Kramer suspects, was applied early in the fifties when the UT succumbed to a brief 3-D period...
...size 8-10 to the designer and, to herself, landlord over priceless property. She is undernourished (a pallid cheek is a cosmetic's best background), underweight (at an average height of 5 ft. 8 in., she weighs an average 112 Ibs., so that flesh does not detract from fabric cut), and overpaid (no less than $25 an hour, as much as $120). Her working life is short-at 30 she may drop overnight from a cover on Vogue to a back page in a mail-order catalogue. Few of her breed are known by name except in the fashion...
...government's bill to restrict immigration from Commonwealth countries. Opponents of the measure range from the left-wing New Statesman, which has damned its "contemptuous" disregard of Commonwealth citizens' traditional right of free entry into Britain, to the Tory Times, which feared for the already fragile fabric of the Commonwealth. Last week, when the bill came up for a two-day debate in Parliament, the staid old House of Commons was plunged into such violent turmoil that the chair had to suspend a session for the first time since the Suez dispute...
...fabric of history, which T. S. Eliot stretched upon a strangely spiritual frame, is restored to a more human and traditional shape by Richard Corum's brilliant direction of Murder in the Cathedral. Corum's work gains its vigor by rejecting Eliot's theological interpretation of Becket's martyrdom. From a poetically beautiful but theatrically impossible play, he has created an intellectually indecisive drama of enormous power...