Word: fabricate
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...agitators and the Communist Party mixed up in this picture, and people pooh-poohing around sitting up in their ivory towers, a bunch of sissy britches." He paused. "I don't believe just because somebody has a grievance that you should destroy the whole fabric of the Constitution, of private property. You don't burn the house down to destroy a rat." Wallace stood up and walked about the office. "If they go ahead," he said, "they will destroy a lot more than they realize...
...hinting at perfections scarcely imagined unless the wearer were rendered shiftless. But as fashion gives way to fat, milady often assumes shapes and sizes that require all-too-little imagination. There is an answer for that, too: the tent shift, a sloping expanse of hopsacking, stretch fabric, burlap or denim that keeps her bulkiest problems right under the Big Top where they belong...
Golden winds up with the tale of a peddler whose first name is still a household word. He was a Bavarian immigrant named Levi Strauss. He sailed to San Francisco in 1852 with a batch of denim canvas. Strauss hoped to sell the fabric for tenting, but noticed that the men needed pants that would hold up in the rugged gold-mining hills of California. The canvas started his inimitable blue jeans, called Levi's, walking all over the world...
...Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is not only feuding with Moscow over economic planning but is warm toward Peking, allowed its manifesto to appear in the Rumanian press. What confronted the small-scale Red summit meeting was the picture of the Sino-Soviet rift tearing into the Communist fabric all over the world...
...profound effect on the social fabric of America, quietly battling by due process, without moral or physical fear, the dragon of prejudice, armed with the law as his sword and the Constitution as his shield. Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense LL.D...