Word: stitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVEN as a "new Europe" is trying to stitch itself together, an old one is doing its best to pull the Continent apart. For all the talk of unity, Europeans have not yet surmounted the chauvinistic prejudices that permit Belgians to think of neighboring Dutchmen as supercilious stuffed shirts, Germans to regard Italians as hopelessly unambitious and inefficient. As for the French, all too many are still reared with an overweening sense of cultural and linguistic superiority that Jean Cocteau once described with the confession: "When I was little, I believed that foreigners could not really talk...
...some sort of dope. He'd open his eyes and they would roll to the back of his head." Rehak adds: "He had this real stringy beard. His hair was down over his shoulders. He stood up and fumbled with his old bathrobe-didn't have a stitch on underneath-and that's when I noticed his long toenails. They were so long they curled...
WITHOUT A STITCH IN TIME by Peter DeVries. 328 pages. Little, Brown...
...leadership. Right now they will accept even a Lee Kuan Yew or a Chung Hee Park. They will accept a diminution in civil liberties if only these are properly explained to them. You can cut corners now." Marcos had cut the corners all right, but whether he could stitch them together again remained to be seen...
Farber's says that the University has several other possible courses of action from selling the stock. He points to several areas where Gulf could be influenced to change its practice such as stitch as hiring and benefits for black African employees, charitable donations and new investment in Angola...