Word: woven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noticed," asked Ahmed Karabegovic, secretary-general of the organizing committee for the Sarajevo Games, "that all of the stores in the city still have the Olympic emblem in the windows and that many men wear this Olympic tie?" He thrust forward a cravat with a snowflake and five rings woven into its design. "It is a small thing, but it is significant. Before, our city was known as a town of ashes, the place where a war began. Now it is a town of the Olympics and of friendship; much has changed...
...cream-colored substance that is left after the liquid is squeezed out is coca base, the raw material that is sent to refineries to be turned into cocaine. This transformation is accomplished by combining the paste with ether and acetone to remove impurities, and filtering the mixture through tightly woven cloth, leaving a slurry. When this is dried in its turn, it becomes concentrated cocaine hydrochloride, so potent that consumption could lead to seizures or death. The pure cocaine is cut with substances such as sugar, talcum powder or flour to produce the high-priced "snow" sold on the street...
Flixborough on Humberside, England, June 1, 1974. Britain's biggest peacetime explosion occurred at the Nypro (U.K.) Ltd. chemical plant when a pipe ruptured. The plant produced Caprolactum, which is woven into nylon. The blast killed 28 workers and leveled every building on the 60-acre site...
...role; his features, soft and spoiled at the beginning, take on a he-manly glamour once he assumes his mission. Like most of the other cast members, MacLachlan delivers his speeches as incantations from an old, old testament. The actors seem hypnotized by the spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments when Annis is onscreen, Dune finds the emotional center that has eluded it in its parade of rococo decor and austere special effects. She reminds...
...learn more about the style and ferocity of the syndicate. Organized Crimes is part political satire, part informal history, part rumination on the Depression, part love story between the rich boy poor in spirit and the poor girl rich in perception. Von Hoffman's elemental themes are deftly woven into the episodic narrative: among men of power, there may be differences of method but not of motive; between brains and privilege, choose brains, because money and position may prove fleeting, while intelligence endures...