Word: fabrication
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...flat-brimmed hats still sip cognac in sidewalk cafés, and aging horses still pull ancient carriages along streets lined with orange trees toward the world's largest Gothic cathedral. But across the Guadalquivir, tens of thousands of spinning bobbins turn raw cotton and wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels from all over...
...horizon, for Franco believes - and many of his enemies agree - that Spaniards are so strong-willed that they need a firm hand to keep them in line. The fear is that if Franco disap pears before he has put his house in order, the social fabric of Spain will be stretched to its limit - or beyond - by the struggle for power that might follow...
...have universal commitments, but we have a universal stake in there not being aggression and in the ability of small nations to live alone and not be molested simply because they live near a great power. Otherwise the total fabric of international life collapses and this becomes once again the law of the jungle where the denizens of the jungle have weapons that just must not be used if man is to survive...
Hottest news for the cold season are tailored outfits made from a new super-stretch fabric that feels more comfortable, sticks much closer to the facts. For $65, Jack Winter has whipped up a stretch suit with a thin, double-breasted jacket that would look more familiar in a Courreges workshop than on a practice slope. Sleeker still is a $40 White Stag jump suit with a neckline that plunges well below the fall line, exposing an Irish sweater, a turtleneck jersey-or whatever front a girl wants...
...theme is a stretch suit (Ernest Engel: $130) that features a convertible collar and bell-bottom pants that fit-over the boot (an inner sleeve runs inside the boot to keep out the snow). Even knickers, once available only in bulky corduroy and baggy wool, now come in stretch-fabric that hugs the hips and thighs tighter-and rather more attractively -than a girdle...