Word: garments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooler climes agreed. Once wet, the uniform takes an excessive time to dry. The sleeves are too narrow to roll up easily, the collar too wide and the pants pockets hard to reach. Seams unravel, buttons fall off. The trousers come with a reinforced crotch that strengthens the garment but constricts its wearer. After a few washings, the fabric shrinks, its colors fading to a mottled purple...
...York City's Fordham University last week, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, perhaps the most influential U.S. archbishop, defended the linking of opposition to both abortion and capital punishment by arguing that these "prolife" policies constitute a "seamless garment." Bernardin also spoke on a subject with which he has become closely identified: opposition to the nuclear arms race. Rejections of abortion and nuclear war, he declared, are "specific applications of this broader attitude" to life. He noted: "We have also opposed the death penalty because we do not think its use cultivates an attitude of respect for life...
...Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1982, at least partly because their reporters used false identities. The Sun-Times set up a saloon business and paid bribes to city officials; a Herald-Examiner reporter claimed to be an illegal alien and took a job in a garment-industry sweatshop...
...place in 5.8 seconds. According to the Commission, it took 2.3 seconds to operate the rifle's bolt mechanism between shots. Magazine journalist Robert Sam Anson, in his articles in New Times and his book "They've Killed the President!", relies heavily on the color 8-mm film Dallas garment manufacturer Abraham Zapruder made of the murder. In the film, Connally is not seen to react until nearly a second after Kennedy emerges, obviously wounded, from behind a ground-level sign blocking Zapruder's view...
...chairman and president, recalls a woman approaching him and saying: "Coming to Loehmann's is like therapy forme." Loehmann's has been affecting its clientele this way since 1920, when Freida Loehmann opened a clothing shop under her Brooklyn apartment, started paying cash to top makers for garment overruns and selling them at deep discounts, also for cash...