Word: thread
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...question, Kronstadt would remain a historical fantasy, of some topical interest to be sure, but not really worth dragging off the shelf. Yet as it is, the dilemma is worthy of attention because it poses the difficulty that must accompany the inclusion of "democracy" and "centralism" into a single thread of political practice. The Kronstadters argument, of course, was that the revolution had really begun with the promise of autonomous soviets; the Bolshevik hard-liners had supposed that the soviets must compromise their independence in favor of a more central and powerful body. Lenin, throughout his political career, had woven...
...even know it was marijuana. After a heart attack four years ago, Carrozzi testified at his trial last week, he visited his native village, Camarda in the Abruzzi Mountains and brought back a packet of canapa seeds. Camardans, he recalled from his youth, used canapa fibers to make thread and cloth. Its seeds are used in soups and candies. "The kids," Carrozzi related, "used to carry them in their pockets and eat them like peanuts." Ironically, only the leaves are thrown away...
Woven Headaches. Another secure mane is produced by hair weaving, a process that costs between $150 and $400. Supplementary hair is woven onto a base of nylon thread and then crocheted with the client's remaining hair across the bald spot. Unfortunately, as the real hair grows the woven hair becomes loose and has to be tightened every four to six weeks at a cost of between $5 and $50 per treatment...
...injecting a local anesthetic, the surgeon makes an incision about half an inch long on one side of the scrotum, draws out one vas, and cuts out a section up to an inch long. He usually cauterizes the remaining stumps of the vas and ties them shut with nonabsorbable thread. The surgeon then sutures the small wound and repeats the procedure on the other side...
...life and his India, including the problems of technology. He changes even a pack of cards into a design problem: his House of Cards Picture Deck is made up of beautifully patterned photos that have slits so that one can build a house of herbs and spices, spools of thread, Victorian English pill boxes or Chinese baby firecrackers. Charles and Ray Eames restore order to their world with their problem solving...