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...Queen Mary to the Royal School of Needlework and used for the bodice. For borrowed, the bride wore a diamond tiara from the Spencer family collection, clasping her silk tulle veil, and a pair of diamond-drop earrings lent by her mother Frances Shand Kydd. Blue was a bow sewn into the waistband. For luck, there was a tiny 18-karat gold horseshoe tucked away in the voluminous skirts. The anxious Emanuels were stationed just inside the entrance of St. Paul's to give the bride the final once-over before she took the 3½-minute trip down...
...revealed to be a fashionable variation of such workman's clothing: his dungarees were of fawn corduroy, his shirt of red and blue lumberjack checks. He wore boots that were unusual, being silver-coloured; and beneath each armpit, in a shade of fawn that matched his dungarees, were sewn-on patches, appearing to symbolise a labourer's excretion of sweat...
...employee of the Navy Department, who, after working there for 20 years, was fired because of alleged Communist associations. Lewis claims now, as he did at the time, that Chasanow was "about as much of a communist as Ronald Reagan was." The seeds of Lewis' liberalism were already sewn...
...heavy turnout is expected to aid President Carter's bid for reelection, because Democratic registration in the state is nearly three times greater than Republican. But observers in the city said yesterday that even the Democratic stronghold of Cambridge is not sewn up for the president...
...periphery to accentuate the curve. A similar operation, called keratophakia (cornea lens), is used to correct only farsightedness. After the front of the cornea is sliced off, a reshaped donor cornea (from an eye bank) is inserted in its place. The front of the original cornea is then sewn back on, resulting in a more sharply curved structure...