Word: sewn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cubans arrived on the little island (750 sq. mi.) with a promise of $5 million in relief assistance from Havana, they were greeted by scores of U.S. flags fluttering from surviving buildings. The spontaneous display of the flags, (which a merchant had brought to the island to be sewn into colorful shirts) indicated that the U.S. had beaten the Cubans to a Caribbean disaster with tangible aid-for a change...
Despite the festive atmosphere, the nerve-racking suspense that has characterized the final night of Easterns in so many years past was just about absent Saturday evening after the Crimson had virtually sewn up the meet with its performance at the trials earlier...
...Ministers and Presidents are routinely received with equanimity bordering on boredom, Teng's arrival provoked the keenest excitement. Not since Nikita Khrushchev flew in from Moscow to take a crack at detente 20 years ago has a state visit aroused so much exhilaration and frenzied agitation. As 160 hand-sewn red-and-gold Chinese flags blossomed atop lampposts along the route of Teng's motorcade, a White House task force labored to provide a memorable reception for Teng and his entourage of 75 (key members: Foreign Affairs Minister Huang Hua, Vice Premier Fang Yi and Foreign Trade Minister Li Chiang...
...simpler methods of shipment. A commercial air traveler flying from Bogota can make $10,000 tax free by carrying a pound about the size of a paperback book. Many passengers do. They carry the white powder on their bodies, inside candy bars or toothpaste tubes, under slightly askew wigs, sewn into leather saddles...
Rarely seen at public events without his derby or his pet cross-eyed mule, Sam Lewis has been the butt of jokes in San Angelo, Texas, for most of his 56 years. People laughed when someone put a live rattlesnake, with its mouth sewn shut, in his bedroll at a chili-cooking contest. They laughed even harder when he tried to peddle Hawaiian Delight pizzas, a terrifying concoction of Canadian bacon, pineapple chunks and cherries smothered in tomato paste and melted cheese...