Word: lacing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tuesday night is that—though the party itself is far less divided than it was in the 1960s—this was a convention that couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to be. Speakers who must have been dying for a chance to lace into the current administration’s moral bankruptcy and pragmatic failures were reportedly told to lay off the Bush-bashing for fear of alienating those precious swingers. And so this week inhabited an odd political twilight zone: an opposition party seeking to rescue the nation midway through what seems...
...slip a bit while in Cambridge, where there is too much schoolwork and too few trails and rolling hills to entice me to go on daily 90-minute runs like I used to. Now the hills are once more in my backyard, so it’s time to lace up the shoes again...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff said last Friday: "We don't know when they're going." In his weekend speech, Roh promised to hit the ground running. "I'll tie up my shoes again," he said, "and run really hard." His soldiers are still waiting for orders to lace up their boots...
...green and blue. Reem Acra designed a dress that allows brides to choose from various colored underlays. The color wave is set to continue: at last month's spring 2005 bridal shows, Carolina Herrera unveiled a black-and-white polka-dot taffeta gown, Amsale debuted a mocha-and-ivory lace-and-chiffon dress, and Monique Lhuillier accented her collection with brown satin ribbons and rich teal blue sashes...
...wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniaków had a brain wave: Why not use their ancient skills to make ... erotic underwear? The idea quickly caught on, and German sex shops have become buyers of their flimsy, colorful crochet lace thongs. A website promoting the area...