Word: thread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the man resisted, he was beaten, gagged and bound with rope. But the Red officer politely asked the Takshing's master the cost of the rope, which belonged to his ship. "The People's Army and Navy," declaimed one of the Reds, "do not take a thread or a needle away from anybody." He promised to send $5 next day, then announced: "We are arresting special agents who sabotage our country's economy. The men we want are guilty of forging 50 billion J.M.P. [Red Chinese currency...
...English titles are stated simply, and follow the French closely. Because the photography is excellent, few words are necessary. Jumping back and forth from one thread to another, the camera achieves excellent transitions, and at the same time keeps the picture from fading. Under the Paris Sky is an absorbing treatment of a day in a large city...
...Hill's hair tonic and shaving lotion. Then they helped themselves to Hill's suits. When Joseph discovered that six-footer Hill's suits didn't fit, he sat down at an old treadle sewing machine and carefully altered the trousers and sleeves. The thread broke repeatedly, and Mrs. Hill kept rethreading the needle...
...Benedictines of Salem encourage Indian Christians to keep as much of their native custom as possible, e.g., Christian brides do not wear wedding rings, but tie a thread around their necks as Hindus do. The monastery itself has fitted snugly into the life of the surrounding communities. Local farmers now come there to get medicine for their sick and to look over the Catholic sanyasis' agricultural methods. Said one Salem Hindu: "They look more like our type of sanyasis. Maybe there's something in their religion." This is the kind of talk that Dom Philip likes to hear...
Assembly Line. In Madison Heights, Va., 13-month-old Martha Lula Coleman started to swallow a piece of nylon sewing thread, choked, brought up the string and a 10?-store whistle she had swallowed three months before...