Word: seam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falls. She then begins cutting and sewing with the fabric still on her. It is from this master sample that patterns are made. This curious system may well stem from her teen-age days, when she would stitch herself into tight pants, then extricate herself with a seam ripper...
Wondering how the rugby seam plans to use the beer mugs they won last week for capturing the Ivy League title? A recent Crimson poll indicates that the team itself is divided over which beers should fill the victory mugs...
...these, the lyrical adagio in the Bizet is the most difficult, demanding regal presence and an enigmatic, almost witchy sexiness. But Darci is a very young princess, and the other quality is still beyond her. Nor did it help when, on the second night, a bodice seam split down to the waist. Darci went right on with the aplomb that is already her signature, swimming happily through the ballet's subaqueous rhythms, and looking like what she is, a California girl transfigured...
...when Allard came in to throw the ball, Marshall joined him. Marshall said yesterday, "I knew from baseball how competitive and totally in control of himself Donnie is." And in that crucial third and eight, Allard found Marshall with a perfect aerial over the middle to a seam in the zone, and the Crimson had a 21-yd. gain at the Princeton...
...Japanese are not only fussy about the workmanship at the plant; they are also meticulous about the cars they buy. Customers will refuse delivery of a new car that has a stray smudge of grease or a crooked seat seam. All U.S. cars and most foreign ones must be repainted before they hit local showrooms so that they will conform to higher quality standards. When Chevrolet sent its first Citation X-car to Japan for inspection, the company got back an embarrassing list of 105 defects that had to be corrected before the car could be sold there...