Word: fabricator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harris defended his proposal in ringing terms: "Magazines by Canadians, for Canadians, telling about Canadians, are an essential thread in the fabric of our national life ... I wonder whether we could contemplate a time when we would not have a Canadian magazine...
...Japanese silkmen had to change their ways drastically. Their prewar silk fabric was imperfectly woven, poorly dyed, usable only for cheap kimonos, etc. U.S. dressmakers rarely used Japan's silks, preferring the higher quality fabrics of European weavers...
...teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton's 17%) and nylon leads in dress-length slips (45% v. 39%), but in the majority of categories the vote is for cotton. Cotton, said the girls, is not only easy to wash, iron and care for, but is "suitable...
...target quotas for grain and confiscated land, so that even if a village had few landlords, a necessary percentage of Hsiao Mieh was written up. The announced objective was to redistribute the land among the peasants, and that was actually done. But the real purpose was to break the fabric of economic and social traditions of China's rural population...
...seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed about the white families who give car rides to their Negro help, or pay their taxi fare. He said that the cooks and maids who boycott the buses "are fighting to destroy our social fabric just as much as the Negro radicals who are leading them. The Negroes are laughing at white people behind their backs . . . They think it's very funny and amusing that whites who are opposed to the Negro boycott will act as chauffeur to Negroes who are boycotting the buses...