Word: nylon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Someone stole a pink nylon wallet which was left unattended in a classroom at the Faculty Club. The wallet contained $110 in cash, a driver's license, and a bank card. Police have no suspects...
...forensic expert testified without emotion that the activist priest died from a combination of severe beating, shock, strangulation by the nylon cord with which he had been trussed and from his inability to expel the blood and vomit that flooded through his respiratory system after the attack. Dispassionately, Byrdy held up one of the two rolls of stained gauze that Popieluszko's attackers had forced into their victim's mouth...
...satisfying four- minute snooze. Caffeine addicts no longer have to wait for room service if they are willing to lug along Melitta's 4-lb. automatic drip machine ($40), complete with filters, creamer and sugar bowl. The Take-along Desk Drawer ($40) fits tiny office supplies in a lightweight nylon case--a mere 5 1/2 in. by 9 in. Contents include a paper punch, scissors, 6-ft. tape measure, screwdriver and a telescoping presentation pointer for meetings...
Flixborough on Humberside, England, June 1, 1974. Britain's biggest peacetime explosion occurred at the Nypro (U.K.) Ltd. chemical plant when a pipe ruptured. The plant produced Caprolactum, which is woven into nylon. The blast killed 28 workers and leveled every building on the 60-acre site...
...invisible means as well as the soft drapes which held their own line without visible support--owed their qualities to the new, man-made fibers. Indeed, these models would not have been possible without the aid of such novel fabrics as featherweight holland linings and diaphanous but firm, stiffened nylon. --"The Aesthetics of Fashion" James H. Lubowitz, Fine Arts...