Word: yarning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crazy: a knee bend, for example, caused the stuff to stretch 45%, a shoulder shrug, 16%. After as little as 30 bending, shrugging years, shape was sure to go. Fortunately, skilled technicians got to work on the problem, finally turned up with an ANo. 1 solution called polyurethane elastomeric yarn (spandex) that stretches like skin, leaves no telltale bags or sags, and springs back into good-as-new condition without benefit of plastic surgery...
Sims, 41, an Athens machinist, and Myers, 25, a yarn plucker at an Athens textile mill, were charged with the senseless shotgun slaying last July 11 of District of Columbia Educator Lemuel A. Penn, 49, who was driving home after a training stint as an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel at Fort Benning, Ga. A third defendant, Gas Station Attendant James S. Lackey, 28, had been granted a separate trial. All three are Ku Klux Klansmen...
...Klan. Sure enough, a little more detective work led them to one James Lackey, 28, an Athens gas station attendant. According to U.S. authorities, Lackey confessed that he was in on the ambush and implicated three fellow Klansmen-Garage Owner Herbert Guest, 37, a short, fat gun fancier; textile Yarn Plucker Cecil Myers, 25, who strutted around Athens toting a pistol; Machinist Joseph Sims, 41, a quick-tempered segregationist who was arrested in March for flourishing a pistol during a Negro demonstration. All are members of Clarke County Klavern...
Died. Catherine Evans Whitener, 83, who at the age of 15 snipped off each bit of yarn as it came through the cloth of a bedspread she was making, thus inventing the tufted bedspread, something that has since become one of Georgia's largest industries as mass production built up tufted textiles into a $500 million-a-year business; of cancer; in Dalton...
...years ago Kubrick, 35, got the rights to Peter George's 1958 novel Red Alert, then enlisted George and Co-Scenarist Terry Southern to help transmogrify that straightforward suspense yarn. By heightening the already striking surreality of mere humans blundering through a maze of buzzers, lighted dials, threat boards, hot lines and early warning systems toward world holocaust, Kubrick shot for a "nightmare comedy" and made...