Word: woven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing a trench coat and pin-striped suit instead of his customary woven mat skirt, portly (300 Ibs.) Crown Prince Tungi, 32, arrived in Washington for his first visit to the U.S., looking more like a Western businessman than the heir to the throne of Tonga-a 150-island kingdom of 47,000 Polynesian subjects in the Central Pacific. Talking over his trip with the press, His Highness also discussed his reading habits. "I am reading everything I receive," he said, "except the London Times. It is really too long, and would take a second lifetime. So I merely mark...
...point. the reviewer was not challenging Mr. Kalser's wide knowledge of poetry; the intelligence that the ghastly phrase in question comes from Pound does not change the issue. For all our "not-soerudite" reviewer knows the whole review may have been composed exclusively of quotations from Pound, all woven together...
...teachers), students were flocking again to classes in geography, math, English, science, art and civics. The girls helped to support their schools by raising chickens and selling eggs; the boys were beginning to rebuild their classrooms. At Andong, students have already made themselves three new school buildings of basket-woven sides plastered with...
Made from natural gas, salt and air, dynel can be dyed, woven with other fabrics or used alone. Davidson says it is washable, mothproof, almost shrinkproof, and resistant to strong chemicals. At $1.25 a lb., manufacturers may find dynel a cheap substitute for wool, which, for similar use, sells at $2.15 to $3.50 a lb. Since dynel orders already far outstrip the company's annual production of 2,000,000 lbs., work was started last week to double the output. If dynel catches on, Union Carbide hopes to expand to as much as 40 million lbs. a year...
...Last Holiday" is a remarkable film. It has abundant wit and abundant warmth; it has a wealth of acute characterization, and, woven skillfully among all three, it has profound tragedy. In short, "The Last Holiday" has about everything that a film needs, not the least of which is an excellent cast, headed by the versatile Alee Guinness...