Word: sewing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sips a glass of red wine a la Julia Child. "I have never made cupcakes before," he said, responding to a suggestion that they be served for dessert. "I once did baking powder biscuits." As a junior high schooler, Mansfield took Home Economics. "They taught us how to sew on a button," he recalls painfully. "This might be quite useful...for a man without a wife...
Formerly known as the Learning Channel, TLC wasn't always this intuitive. Before Discovery Communications acquired it in 1991, the channel's more scintillating programs included an IRS-sponsored instructional called The Subject Is Taxes and the crafts-oriented Sew What's New. Translating its pedagogical mission into warmer, fuzzier, but still informative reality fare for women fell to daytime-programming chief Chuck Gingold, who had worked at Lifetime and had noticed the huge success of shows about weddings like that of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. With heightened competition for the women's market, voyeurism at a premium...
...having allowed only a first-quarter field goal, Harvard didn't need much to sew the game up. However, it let the Big Red march 72 yards in 11 plays for a touchdown...
...question is what can we do that is effective, that uses our resources to the best of our abilities and that gives us some assurance that we are making a difference to the men and women who sew T-shirts and sweatshirts," he added...
During the Civil War, the women of Cambridgeformed a sewing bee--a circle of women whoconvened weekly to sew uniforms for the Unionsoldiers. Members naturally formed friendshipsover the long hours spent together working, andwhen the war ended, the group continued to meet asa book club and social outlet...