Word: sewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handbag. Shoes and other leather goods are made from the hides of Tuscan cattle that are not allowed to leave their stalls at all lest they be scratched. The Guccis' staff of 185 workers, helped by peasants who work for Gucci in their homes around Florence, shape and sew as many as 7,000 pairs of shoes each month, plus pigskin bags made of 130 separate pieces. "There is not much that you can teach a Florentine about merchandising or craftsmanship," says Aldo Gucci...
Bill Russell now leads his brood to Los Angeles for the fifth game on Thursday. The clubs will return to Boston for a game Saturday night, which for the Celtics, will either sew up the championship or be an attempt to hang...
...sport coat of grey velvet curtain material. Picasso took one look at Verdet's coat and was off to see the tailor. The two men hit it off instantly, and after Sapone had cooked Picasso some Neapolitan spaghetti, the artist gave him three lithographs and an order to "sew something...
...Tommy Gorence, 16, a 6-ft, 195-lb. high school basketball player from Oneonta, N.Y. Last February he was elbowed in the abdomen and doubled up with severe pain, but he shook it off. A second elbowing put Tommy into the University Hospital in Syracuse, where surgeons trying to sew up his lacerated liver discovered that it was cancerous. Since the cancer was found to be incurable, Tommy was referred to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a possible transplant...
...later, the heart stopped, and two surgical teams went to work. Temporarily kept warm by artificially circulated blood, then quickly sutured into place, the new heart began beating immediately without the usual electrical shock. "Silence," said Zerbini, as a murmur of astonishment swept the room, and he proceeded to sew up his patient's chest...