Word: threading
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News of an amazingly tough new cotton came from New Orleans last week. Some cloth and thread were buried in a soil bed alive with fungi and other microorganisms. Ordinary cotton would have decayed within a week. This material, after six months to a year in the ground, was almost as good...
Potsdam conference had to thread a way between...
...book is a collection of 210 acidulous, weavy, relaxed drawings, some of which look as though they had been made by dropping black thread on a white washed floor. Freest bird in the cartooning aviary, Saul Steinberg once experimented with the value of line by bending wire coat hangers into pictorial forms: "Out of line you make whatever you wish." Among Steinberg's more rewarding finds...
...they are to have in their immediate government, how the three areas are to be coordinated, what the requisites are for Austria becoming truly independent. Liaison with Russia is obviously poor. How much is Russia's fault and how much is ours, I do not know. Certainly the thread of confusion apparent in Salzburg is traceable to the highest levels of our three Allied governments...
...fevered lips parted and sounds came from them. They did not sound like words, but the young marine had caught the thread of prayer. Thickly he followed the passage: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with...