Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain, Macqueen Cybernetics Ltd. has developed a monster that can do practically everything for a knitted garment except pour the customer into it. It scans a design electronically, then out of its computer brain come punched tapes that control the pattern of the material and tell each needle when to knit or purl...
Bigger things now beckon. "Boats! Yachts!" says Macqueen enthusiastically. "There's no difference, really, between knitting a boat and knitting a bra cup. The boat is about the same shape, just bigger that's all." He is hard at work on a machine to knit glass-fiber yarn into streamlined boat hulls up to 40 ft. long. "You put the garment into a mold," says Macqueen, "and plasticize it. Hey, presto! You have a yacht...
...Students shall not knit or chew gum at public lectures or concerts, or in classes when guest lecturers are present...
...another with a jealous eye; and sooner or later, when there is nothing left to divide, they will fall upon one another. That is the real meaning of your armaments; you must devour or be devoured. And it is precisely these trade relations which it was thought would knit you in the bonds of peace, while, by making every one of you cut-throat rivals of the others, have brought you within reasonable distance of a general war of extermination...
...Brine's clearance sale continues until Friday. Absolutely everything is reduced: both men's and women's sportswear, parkas, stretch pants, Italian hand-knit sweaters, skis and all equipment. Most items are 20 per cent off regular price. Mrs. Brine insists that her down-filled quilted parkas ($28) are "the warmest thing...