Word: stockinger
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They look big enough to brain the butcher and turn their users into Lilliputians, but jumbo-sized needles, oil inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours...
Meantime, and until the courts decide whether Powell's exclusion from the House is constitutional, Harlem remains a district without a Congressman. For months, Republican Theodore Kup-ferman, representing Manhattan's Silk Stocking district, has been fielding problems from Powell's old constituents. But now the petitions...
The abundance is not only the result of official seasons, bag limits, stocking programs and predator controls; much of it is the animals' own doing. Many species have learned to live all too comfortably with encroaching civilization.
As the band breaks into his theme song, Hawaiian Crooner Don Ho rides the spotlight in like a surfer on a 30-footer at Makaha. Except for a red lei ringing his powerful shoulders, he is either bare from the waist up or all in glistening white, from open velours...
In olden days, as Cole Porter put it, a glimpse of a stocking was something quite shocking. Nowadays the exposed human form has become such a big part of show business that hardly any thing is startling. Just boring - as two show-biz flops amply illustrate.