Word: fabricate
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Whole Cloth. Pabst Brewing Co. put on the market a dry-cleaning powder which literally eats stains from clothing. An enzyme, the powder will digest stains made by eggs, milk, chocolate, coffee, beer. One drawback: if used on a synthetic fabric with a protein base, the powder will eat up the cloth. Price of "Exzyme": $4.50 a pound...
...bang. Right now, the lawmakers are enthusiastic about the Communist menace within the state, which makes fine speech material, good news copy and great headlines. But in their almost hysterical efforts to dynamite Communism, some of them are playing around with a charge big enough to wreck the whole fabric of free government...
...Declare football an "unholy mess" and throw it out entirely. He noted, however, that "if football is abolished, or de-emphasized it might damage the fabric of the college community. The experience at the University of Chicago proves that." Without football, he suggested, Harvard would lose its drawing power for some students, bringing in an overbalance of intellectuals...
...Kremlin into a Balkan Korea. A sign of U.S. backing for Tito was the visit to Belgrade of Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins. The U.S. Mediterranean fleet has just completed joint maneuvers with the British. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, like Tito, broadly hinted that "the fabric of peace" would be rent asunder by World War III if Yugoslavia were attacked...
...Houses. ". . .the House Plan has become a vital core." It should be improved by being even more closely knit into the educational fabric of the College through debate and perhaps adoption of some of the recommendations of the committee on "Advising at Harvard College...