Word: close-knit
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...home, the conference plans to provide for more organized participation in international student meetings. In fact, the Chicago meeting was originally proposed by the American delegation to last summer's International Student Conference at Prague, which found difficulty in unifying the mass of student opinion as compared with traditionally close-knit European groups...
James Street in Newark, N.J. is like many U.S. city streets, almost a community in itself. Its atmosphere is faded elegance: a row of weather-beaten brick fronts with an occasional grubby little tobacco or tailor shop tacked on. In close-knit James Street, people keep tabs on their neighbors...
...trainer and desk general, but he needed top field commanders. He gave Hodges one more test: command of the Third Army. The 1943 Louisiana maneuvers clinched the case and Marshall's conviction of Hodges' abilities: "unbeatable in the kind of command that requires deliberate method, close-knit organization, the kind of mind that nothing can distract." Hodges went to England and to battle...
...Officers who find their close-knit units disrupted by discharges so that they will have to fit new units together from fragments of others. (The War Department admitted: "The simplest plan . . . would have been to return . . . surplus units to this country and discharge their personnel intact...
...moment, the western world knew almost nothing. Most people in the U.S. had never heard his name. Yet he was a man who had devoted all his latter years to a scheme of Asian empire which touched the Russians and the Chinese first of all, but in the close-knit world of 1942 mattered enormously to the U.S. as well. He was a short and flabby man of 57, with protruding cheekbones and a mummy-like skin, who had said of himself: "I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve...