Word: fabricate
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...caustic merchandize, the upper layer of fine plastic has been eroded away, exposing the layer of textiles below. Now this leads to two hateful features: First of all, I object to having ravelings of socks in my food, however sterile they may be. But worse yet, the porous fabric becomes impregnated with organic remains of previous meals, and I suspect the resultant deposits of rotting material, socks and food together, form a fine breeding ground for more than one case...
...rooms without making entrances, she holds her voice within the small, unexciting range of normal people. Although Phyllis Thaxter overplays the "other woman" in more than one scene, the minor characters generally succeed in their primary task: they are good enough to fit smoothly into the film's supporting fabric, rather than interrupting the main theme...
...Wobble. Though the Associated combine was liquidated after the crash, Gossard continued to make money, helped by the economies of Production Man Savard and Paris dressmakers' rediscovery of curves. Gossard also helped develop a lightweight, two-way stretch fabric called powernet (used by all big corset and girdle makers today), and got a long lead by using it first. Says Savard proudly: "The fattest kind of woman doesn't wobble when she wears powernet...
...attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that new recourse to aggression in the world today might well strain to the breaking point the fabric of world peace...
...Embassy ventures to suggest the inherent unsuitability of the potato bug (Doryphora decemlineata) as an instrument of national policy. The Embassy doubts whether the potato bug, even in its most voracious phase, could nibble effectively at the fabric of friendship uniting the Czechoslovakian and the American people...