Word: fabrication
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assuage parental anxiety. Nothing about Shaun is calculated to intimidate or offend. As Joe Hardy, boy sleuth, he is absolutely hygienic. In concert, he adorns himself in requisite skin-tights and shakes his tail at the yearning throngs, but the distinct outline of his briefs pressing through the clinging fabric is disarming and reassuringly boyish, like a kid who has got all the moves down but not quite mastered the fine points...
...strong dissent, the minority report rejects the idea that "the Holy Spirit contradicts in our experience what He has clearly said in the whole fabric of Scripture." It considers the male-female distinction part of God's design to make human life coherent, concluding that homosexuals have a "distorted or insufficient belief in who they are." Even though all Christians sin in various ways, the minority felt that the church cannot afford to condone a practice that the Bible so clearly rejects: "Neither laypersons nor ministers are free to adopt a life-style of continuing, conscious, habitual and unrestricted...
However, once the crew removed a light tower, the building's fabric roof sagged and ripped on the corner of a door frame...
...fabric roof then "settled slowly to the ground," Smith added, ripping further on two remaining light towers. however, 15 employee, said yesterday power was turned workers were able to get out of the building, he said...
...print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United Way fund drive not only met but exceeded its goal for the first time in a decade. Said Drive Director Howard Studd: "We're really a good barometer...