Word: lacing
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...nation's character, like a man's, can be read in the lines on its face. The roads that lace the U.S.'s 110,000 hamlets, towns and cities into a single organism have transformed a remote, leisurely agricultural society into a compact, highspeed industrial civilization that is in constant pursuit of mobility...
Last week Peter Pan Foundations, Inc. was proudly claiming to have achieved a breakthrough-a bra without any seams at all. The secret is in a new drip-dry Chemstrand nylon fiber, which, once molded, holds its shape forever. To make the bra, the lace cloth is laid over a metal replica of a well-shaped bosom. Another form, hollowed out like an Iron Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material...
Then Mr. Ben tossed his crowning achievement, a trifle of black feathers, lace, rhinestones and a soupçon of warmed-over custard. Two ladies clawed away for life. "Ladies, please," begged Mr. Ben, rounding off his numbers, "that is a $475 hat." The littler lady finally let go, holding back her tears...
...first night in Paris, Jackie was dressed, coifed and made up as elaborately as any princess. When she emerged from her bedroom at the Palais des Affaires Etrangeres, she was magnificent in a narrow, pink-and-white straw-lace gown and a swooping 14th century hairdo with a fake topknot. Even John Kennedy, a man who is not notably attentive to the nuances of fashion, was frankly impressed. "Well," he said, "I'm dazzled...
Precisely at 10:15, the President and his lady descended the stairs to the entrance hall. Jackie had on a sleeveless, floor-length sheath of pink and white straw lace, wore just one piece of jewelry: a feather-shaped diamond clip in her bouffant hair. At a signal, the Marine Band's dance orchestra in the East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive...