Word: swatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tufted pillows. He designed himself a new pair of pants because the government-issue pants were badly cut ("I enjoyed going into action well-dressed"). After four years of war−during which he was burned severely by mustard gas−he came out a captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed for the U.S. with a total capital of $40. Aboard ship...
Denied other halls by the government and by leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...
Flair's sample issue has an off-white hard cover, with a second, illustrated cover visible through a triangular peephole. Flair abounds with other tricks. There is an accordion-style pull-out on interior decoration, a pocket-sized book insert, a swatch of cotton fabric, even a page written in invisible ink that can be read when it is heated by a lighted match...
...manufacturer to make the suit. Booth estimates that any retailer with a gross of $50,000 a year can profitably adopt PhotoMetric. The greatest savings will be in alteration costs, inventory, space, insurance, etc. In fact, Booth thinks that anyone can set up in business with a swatch of cloth and a camera, without knowing anything about tailoring...
...went on we entered a stretch of no man's land, a wide swatch of deserted houses left by Arabs and Jews who had lived side by side. The streets in front of these houses were littered with the debris of terror-old shoes, a battered wide-brimmed felt hat of an Orthodox Jew, an old scarf. One house's door hung slantwise on a twisted hinge, as though its occupants had plunged wildly through it in mad haste. On the rooftops were British sentries with Bren guns. Also to be seen were rooftop Jewish guards-young Haganah...