Word: thread
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...snapped the lock and went away. I stood just inside the door in total darkness, trying to make out where I was. An unpleasant odor of staleness and decay assailed me. Gradually I realized that the tiny room had no windows. However, the door fitted badly; a thin thread of light seeped through the gap. When my eyes became accustomed to the darkness, I saw vaguely that there was a wooden board on the dusty floor and a cement toilet in the corner. The room was no more than about five feet square. The handcuffs felt different. They were much...
...Tahiti in 1930, the transformation was already well underway. While Pacific Islanders had woven pandanus fiber and painted mulberry bark for thousands of years, fashioning ceremonial objects of great spiritual and aesthetic value, these mats and tapa cloths would undergo a revolution with the help of needle and thread brought by missionaries. In Hawaii and Tahiti, appliqu?d quilts (kapa kuiki and tifaifai, respectively) overtook tapa in importance, while to the west sewing was incorporated into the making of fine mats, fringed now with wool rather than feathers, turning these traditional markers of weddings, births and funerals into textured tapestries...
...Reason and Faith” requirement of the new general education would place “Jesuits under beds and priests in every corner” of the College. Although Gomes stood out for the laughs that he earned, his remarks generally echoed the meeting’s thread of criticism directed at the Preliminary Report’s categories and nomenclature. Philip Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature, extended this theme, hypothesizing that vague categories such as the newly proposed group of courses on “human beings” might open general education...
...vision also includes incorporating contemporary music. “The Christmas narrative is one that composers and artists return to time and again, and their new perspectives keep this familiar story fresh and relevant. I try and juxtapose the old with the new, all united by a common narrative thread,” he says. This narrative thread will link a 14th-century German carol, 17th-century English carol, and pieces by Mozart and Mendelsohn with such contemporary compositions as Jonathan Dove’s setting of “The Three Kings” and Stephen Paulus?...
...went slim cut, basic cutaway collar, no pocket, no monogram and cocktail cuff, which Alexander described as "the cuff for anyone with James Bond aspirations." Fabric choices were pretty basic. Most colors were represented, and there were a few interesting patterns, but the real decision was about thread count?100, 170 or 200, each of which had a corresponding price escalation. After feeling the gossamer soft 200, then the merely luxurious 100, I decided on a very subtle white-on-white checked 170. Mostly because I didn't think I would be able to expense...