Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went on to cloak him with all the dignity and authority of a leading citizen. Few unscrupulous men have woven themselves so tightly into the business, social and civic fabric of a city...
...Eisenhower Republicans state their case against the Old Guard in shorter and simpler terms. They believe that the social legislation of the New Deal is a fact of U.S. history, that social security, for instance, is as basic to the national fabric as free enterprise. They see gradually expanding Federal Government as the price of rapidly expanding national growth, and foreign aid as the price of international leadership. In addition to the top administrative officials of Government and a sturdy bloc in Congress, Eisenhower Republicanism includes the major elected Republicans who are closest to the voters: the 19 G.O.P. governors...
...Bach, the recitative was not merely an easy way to eat up text and set the key for the next aria, but an integral part of the musical fabric. The founder of the Orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, was on hand for the concert, and he must have been pleased to hear it giving fine performances of such great music...
...avoid tariff increases that would be a blow to free trade, U.S. and Japanese commerce officials tried to work out a compromise. U.S. manufacturers wanted to limit imports to 225 million yds. overall in 1957. Japan held out for its 1955 level of 270 million yds.-half in yardage fabric, half in readymade goods. When U.S. textilemen suggested more Japanese concentration on yardage cotton goods (dominated by more efficient U.S. producers), Japanese Cotton Spinner Spokesman Yasuo Tawa said tartly: "They are giving us broad fishing areas where there are no fish, and shutting us out of narrow seas which...
...difficult as well as an imperfect play. Yet its neglect is scarcely warranted, for there is much that is special, fascinating, even fine about it, and much in its mood for a modern audience to respond to. With bitter and debunking cynicism, Shakespeare slashed in Troilus at the great fabric of the Trojan War, to rend its romance and heroism to tatters, to reduce its Homeric clang to verbosity and decadence...