Word: woven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These guys are damned able reporters," says a former aide to Richard Nixon. "I have a high respect for them. But the tapestry they've woven...
...Woven through the allegations is a too-familiar pattern of the Washington buddy system that Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter have condemned all along the campaign trail. The official to whom Callaway took his plea for a reversal of the Forest Service ruling was J. Phil Campbell, a close friend and fellow Georgian; indeed Callaway had recommended him as Under Secretary of Agriculture. Campbell admits that he urged reconsideration of the Crested Butte expansion. The reversal followed. By strange coincidence, the key decision maker in the Forest Service's reversal of its earlier decision was Jimmy Wilkins...
...version of a Nazca balloon. The result was an odd contraption called Condor I, with an 88-ft.-high envelope made from fabric that closely resembles materials recovered from Nazca gravesites. The balloon's lines and fastenings were made from native fibers; the boat-shaped gondola was woven from totora reeds picked by Indians from Peru's 2.4-mile-high Lake Titicaca...
...Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these stories, unlike present-day America, are places where the past is intricately woven into the present--Helprin's range includes France, Russia, Israel, Italy, and Jamaica--and they provide both a framework and a source of inspiration for his overriding aim: to uncover the link between, the modern short story and the oral tale of long ago. This book, his first collection...
Whether the upturn in textiles will continue much beyond the middle of next year will depend heavily on how well the mills manage to hold down prices. That will be a struggle. Synthetic fibers, which now go into about 70% of all knitted and woven goods, are made from petrochemicals, and could go up as world oil prices rise. The scarcity of natural gas, which is used in the finishing and drying of many textiles, could cause shortages that drive up prices. But if prices behave and the economy continues on its upward course, the textile upturn could accelerate into...