Word: close-knit
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Johannessen echoes the sentiment. “Leverett was very special,” she says. “We were a small unit, 26 employees. It was a close-knit group. We ate meals together...
...such a struggle to figure out a group.”“The neighborhooding did help a lot,” Kyra A Hill ’09 said, but added that it was painful “classifying your friends” into either a close-knit blocking group or an outer-circle linking group.With housing assignments a little more than a week away, other freshmen have seen the blocking experience as an opportunity to express their artistic talent. “The tight-knit groups are fighting too because they got to with fringe friends pushing...
...cities have it quite as bad as Baltimore. The city's highest-crime areas tend to be close-knit, insular communities where everybody knows everybody else's business, including who's talking to the police. Mix in a high-stakes drug trade and a flood of handguns, and you have a recipe for a pitiless war on witnesses. Baltimore's problems first made national news in 2002 when a family of seven were killed in an arson attack after they helped police identify drug dealers in their neighborhood...
...parents went here and got married right after my dad’s graduation,” Cohen writes. “His parents also got married right out of college too; and both sets of parents ended up creating big, happy, close-knit families...
...complicated props—such as actual portraits of the actors for the ghost scenes—that Tsurumi has to paint on her own, many of the cast members help with the more basic paint jobs during their three hours tech requirement.Simultaneously, in the pit, a small, close-knit orchestra patiently practices the musical score.“We’re supposed to be background to the actors—you’re not supposed to notice us,” says orchestra manager, Joanna N. Huey ’06. “It?...