Word: fabricator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortage facing the U.S. is of cotton goods. U.S. citizens might be excused for wondering whether there will be a shortage of air and water next. For years millions of Americans have been perennially sandbagged with "Buy Cotton" campaigns that have made it seem like the one inexhaustible fabric. But now, though the surplus of raw cotton is still a fact, the surplus of cotton in textile form is turning into a mirage. The components are the same as ever: lack of manpower, military demand, price ceilings at the wrong levels...
...negotiations perhaps he emphasized the impermanence, perhaps the save-faced-ness of his bridled patriotism. His performance, in either case, was not anti-climaxed but transcended by executive expression of a national aim. Without belittling the part of tiny strands and small threads, the President successfully emphasized the whole fabric of the nation...
...British air force's four planes, one (a Farman biplane) belonged to the officer who flew it. The other three were Government-owned Bristol Box Kites, contraptions of ash, spruce, cotton fabric, weighing half a ton and held together with "a tangle of piano wire." Pilots who wanted to test the rigging were said to place a bird in the pilot's seat. "If the bird managed to get out, they knew that there must be a wire missing...
...main work of creating the fabric of a new political life in Germany must certainly be in the hands of the men and women who remained in Germany and survived the long Nazi tyranny. They are the ones who have borne the burden and heat of the long struggle against the Gestapo terror. They have been in touch with the masses...
...more of a tacit willingness to let it cultivate "those concerns which Christendom has tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...