Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vice president of the family-founded Cluett, Peabody & Co. (Arrow shirts), Cluett in 1928 determined to find a way of counteracting the pull exerted by mill machines during weaving, which stretches fibers only to have them shrink back again after washing; his process which contracts and preshrinks the cloth, has been lauded as the most significant textile discovery since the advent of fast dyes...
...season, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music. In Scramble, danced to the electronic whoops and cracklings of Composer Toshi Ichiyanagi's Activities for Orchestra, Cunningham and his eight dancers - barefoot, as usual, and in bright colors - stretched, tottered, swung, pivoted, scurried and bounced among strips of colored cloth stretched at different levels on aluminum frames...
Even a man of the cloth like Abernathy felt no compunction about wearing the marchers' arm band reading "Mississippi God Damn." In Boston, where 1,000 poverty marchers mustered en route to Washington last week, a self-styled "Polish Freedom Fighter" named Joseph Mlot-Mroz, 53, picketed the parade with a sign reading, "I Am Fighting Poverty. I Work! Have You Tried it?" In a sorry scuffle, the bow-tied anti-protester was stabbed and hospitalized in fair condition...
Worst of all, many were buried alive in groups of ten to 15, eyes open, mouths stuffed with cloth or dirt...
...Mailer once called the "stale garlic" of his lyricism (the offense being not in the four-letter words but in the garlic). Occasionally, the garlic stands alone, as in Updike's description of a man and woman achieving climax: "So he did then travel through a palace of cloth and sliding stairways throughout the casket of perfume that