Word: thread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delicate Thread. Russia, said he, has supremacy in the air today "over most of the world's land mass. We excel them only in the quality of our long-range bombers and in numbers of atomic bombs. On this single fact, our security hangs by a delicate thread...
...student concentrating in the College's biggest field--partly because it is the biggest--must make up his mind exactly what he wants and then thread his way carefully...
...Synthetic. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced a trade name, "Amilar," for its newest synthetic, which resists mold and mildew, launders easily and, unlike nylon, will not stretch. Amilar has been tested in such items as window curtains, sewing thread, suitings, may be mixed with wool in many materials...
Jacques Fath, serenely confident that women will gladly carry around several yards of window drapes attached to their elbows, set off his strapless white satin sheath gown with "conversation piece" gloves trailing sweeping panels of white satin lined in champagne tulle. Raphael forsook needle & thread for the saw & hammer, peeled off wafer-thin slices of plywood and riveted them-with diamonds, naturally-to the cape of his suit. Castillo of Lanvin's rose-red skirt, fanning out in a graceful arc "like the petals of a full-blown rose," used 33 yards of taffeta to achieve that effect...
...white façades of California-style apartment houses and the frescoed mansions of wealthy traders looked down on the colony's business section. Hong Kong's polyglot population-Chinese, Britons, Americans, Eurasians and White Russians-swirled along the narrow, arcaded sidewalks, pausing at the intersections to thread their way through a steady stream of Citroëns and Chevrolets, Buicks and Bentleys...