Word: threading
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...world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such irrefutable conviction that even the outrageously bad ones are funny. (Sample: "Your life is hanging by a thread." "So are my pants...
...purple spool of thread...
Dick Whitney thinks he has one. With it he expects to be turning out, by midsummer, about 10,000 pounds of finished thread a week in a plant near Zellwood...
...only brightening spot in textiles was in hosiery. Production of nylons had been slow getting started (mostly because of the shortage of nylon thread). But production is now hitting 30,000,000 pairs a month. They should soon begin to appear on the market in greater quantity...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...