Word: preshrunk
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...particularly warm sweater this year is "boiled wool," in which a large sweater is preshrunk to wearable size, increasing the density of the material in the process...
...particularly warm sweater this year is "boiled wool," in which a large sweater is preshrunk to wearable size, increasing the density of the material in the process...
Considering the way Congress mauled John F. Kennedy's last foreign aid bill-appropriating only $3 billion out of an Administration request for $4.5 billion -Lyndon Johnson decided to try a different approach. He sent up a "preshrunk" program of $3.4 billion, the lowest asking price in foreign aid's history. His aides compared it to a bikini -skimpy, but just enough to cover the vital areas...
...middle-class studies in scarlet chronicled from the first sleeping partner to the final sleeping pills. It expertly works the old Belasco formula of being realistic in all its details and stagy in all its essentials. Far from being convincing, it is not really specific: the characters are all preshrunk types colliding in pretested situations. But though often banal, the play is seldom boring...
...used in industry and in households wherever heat-resistant glass is needed. Expansion of the new glass under heat is imperceptible - three times less than the expansion of the great 200-inch telescope mirror which Corning cast for Caltech. When the next big piece of astronomical glass is made, preshrunk glass will probably be used...