Word: fabricate
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...increasing influence of science on society, and it makes every effort to prevent its students from becoming ivory-tower drudges. Says President Stratton: "Science and engineering no longer can be taken in isolation from the rest of the problems of our society-they are woven in the whole fabric of our industry, economy and federal life." With each passing year the humanities come in for greater attention at M.I.T.; its humanities faculty numbers some 120. Its economics department is one of the best, and M.I.T. Economists Walt Rostow and Paul Samuelson are among President Kennedy's top economic advisers...
...great China (pronounced Chee-nah) model fashion's new couture-inspired designs that you can sew yourself," cried the six-column newspaper ad for Macy's 1961 Spring Fabric Fashion Show. "Whether or not," continued the pitch, "you're an aficionado who adores China's rhythmical stroll along fashion's illustrious runways, you must come see her . . ." What made the invitation ir resistible was the accompanying portrait of "the great China," a model of ex quisitely earthy elegance - who makes her own clothes. Born in Shanghai of a Portuguese father and a Siamese mother, China...
...politics in converting deeply felt governmental principle into reality. "The President," a White House aide once said, "hates and despises cheap political maneuvers." So he did-and so he should have. But Ike often carried his feelings so far as to remain above the political battles that are the fabric of positive governmental action. The Democratic comeback in Congress in 1954 and the Democratic landslide in the 1958 elections were among the results of his neglect of practical politics and working politicians...
...captain at the controls or the traveler in the cabin, is doomed. Fate is more than a fine literary record of Gann's own career as a commercial pilot, reaching back to the days of open-cockpit biplanes "and the strangely pleasant odor of wood and shellacked fabric, of which our airplanes were made." It is a testament to lost friends. Every chapter is darkened with the memory of fatal crashes. The dedication lists 397 "old comrades with wings forever folded...
...finished with a three-month stretch for contempt of court and adjudged psychologically incompetent to stand trial on a tax evasion rap, tried to extend his sphere of largesse beyond Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills. One Governor who never returned the gift was Michigan Democrat G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Jack Kennedy's new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Last week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan newsmen, Williams raffled off his vicuna...