Word: fabricate
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Next to the textbook annex of the Coop, the little shop of Kitty Haas is filled with imported fabrics and unusual jewelry. Its collection includes supposedly authentic mummy beads (from Egyptian tombs) at $7.95, necklaces from Haiti, and wooden bracelets from Africa. Known for her elegant dresses with simple lines, Kitty designs and makes them to order in as little as ten days: Prices start at $25 including fabric which may be imported from Siam, Indonesia, France or Mexico. Right now Kitty is brimming over with ideas for evening wear and cocktail dresses for the holidays...
...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. In this dark novel, the author, a German Jew, tries with some success to unthread the fabric of hate: Why did the Germans, Jew and Gentile, acquiesce so passively in Hitler's crime of Jewish extermination...
...insurance companies, in an abandoned car in Marseille. Though it had escaped serious damage when the thieves pulled it from its frame, the painting needed a new canvas backing. Kansas City Art Conservator James Roth set to work, found an unusually thick layer of glue beneath the torn fabric. He softened the rock-hard glue with wet packs, picked away with tweezers, gradually revealing the white-kerchiefed head of a woman, its strongly modeled face accented by deep red shadows...
...make such low power practical, Telstar's puny little transmitter has a hefty ally on the ground. In the mountain-ringed village of Andover, Me., inside a 210-ft. sphere of inflated silvery fabric, stands a great, hornlike antenna. This mammoth electronic ear rotates, twists at odd angles, and can point toward any part of the sky. However it turns, two fair-size houses filled with electronics turn with it, and the thin, frail voice of Telstar is plucked from the sky. Fed into a maser cooled with liquid helium and sent through other intricate equipment, that voice...
...Telstar had turned on its relay apparatus and was ready for business. All eyes in the room watched as a vague light flickered on a TV screen. Then, with remarkable clarity, they saw the American flag waving briskly in front of a view of the big ear's fabric sphere. This picture, which also went to viewers across the U.S., had originated in a TV camera just outside the control room. It had jumped to Telstar, then it had come back to earth, amplified 10 billion times...