Word: nylons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windy December 21 afternoon, high winds ripped one corner of Harvard's 5-year-old temporary track bubble and within two minutes the vinyl-coated nylon, air-supported structure had completely collapsed...
...Harvard bubble collapsed during a wet and windy winter storm on December 21. High winds caused a rip in one corner of the vinyl-coated nylon, air-supported structure, and within two minutes it was deflated...
...sheriffs cautiously pushed open the door of the walk-in closet of the bedroom and found a horrifying sight. Bunched on the floor were seven bodies-the two Parkins and the Earl couple, plus Debbie Earl, her boy friend and her brother. Their arms and legs were bound with nylon cord sometimes clinched with as many as six knots and they were gagged with knotted ties. Each had been shot in the neck or head with a small-caliber pistol. Some had taken longer to die than others. Debbie had been hit by four slugs, her father by five...
...expenses. Prices of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer, which use natural gas as a raw material, jumped by 30% after price controls were lifted. Textile producers also face limited production because 65% of their fibers are synthetics derived from oil. Shortages may also arise in such disparate items as lipstick, nylon stockings, phonograph records, toys, garbage bags, hair curlers and innumerable other products that use petrochemicals...
...staff cafeteria is immaculate, lit with fluorescence and perked up by leaf-green supergraphics. Four dwarfs and a brown nylon-shag bear stand at the counter, ordering chipped beef. Their human faces, pinheads emerging from their neck-holes, look tiny, naked and grumpy. Across a wide cinder-block corridor whose ceiling is wreathed like a battleship's with gas pipes and power mains, more ducks and mice are disappearing into the mask room. REMOVE YOUR HEAD AND PLACE ON TABLE AFTER ENTERING, a notice Commands; the racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood...