Word: looms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the 29-day holiday recess exposed them to an American public that was angry, suspicious, impatient and sour, and one, moreover, that was sharply divided on how to solve the nation's problems. Energy shortages, exploding prices, dwindling jobs, all conspired to make 1974, for most legislators, loom as their Year of the Nervous Stomach...
...American men actually buy Noxzema shaving cream because they see Quarterback Joe Namath lathering his beard with it on TV, Fruit of the Loom underwear because it is recommended by tell-it-like-it-is Sportscaster Howard Cosell, or Schick razors because they are approved by Olympic Swimming Star Mark Spitz...
...Construction men rage that doling out fuel on the basis of "year-earlier" usage (that is, so much less this month than in December 1972) will unfairly penalize an industry whose project starts are erratically timed, depending on the weather and the availability of workers and contracts. Materials shortages loom too: the manufacture of lime, a key ingredient in cement, requires more energy than any other product made in the U.S., and diesel fuel to run construction machinery is scarce. Economists at a Washington conference sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board predicted a drop in housing starts...
...Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate has just traded in an eight-cylinder sports car for a four-cylinder auto that cannot make jackrabbit starts but uses only half as much gasoline as the sports car. Picture Researcher Suzanne Richie has begun weaving blankets for friends on a foot-powered loom in her apartment, and Nation Reporter-Researcher Sally Bedell no longer leaves a 75-watt bulb on in her apartment to sustain her exotic $75 dracaena house plant. For Business Writer Jack Kramer, a former London resident, economizing on energy is old news. "The English advise one to gravitate toward...
Among Miró's current projects are two new Sobreteixims - one hung with umbrellas, another so big (20 ft. by 36 ft.) that Royo has had to construct a special loom to make it. "It will be the largest tapestry ever woven," says Miró proudly. "It is une folie. But then you have to be crazy...