Word: knit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss. There was not much doubt along the dockfront's rough-&-tumble Calle Desamparados about who called the play that shut down the Seatrain. Boss Arcelio Iglesias, Cuba's No. 4 Communist, had knit 9.000 dock wallopers into a powerful Maritime Federation that usually got what it wanted. With many more hands than jobs they contrived to shorten hours, specialize functions, make work. Their weapon: the slowdown...
...democratic politicking. On one hand, this treatment avoids the monumental task of distinguishing party members from progressives who do their own thinking and who, all too often, are swept away by indiscriminate housecleaners. But what can guarantee Communist conduct in democratic activities? Only the greatest vigilance prevents a tightly knit minority, well-trained in political techniques, from feeding on the indifference of the moderates until it emerges as master of policy and direction. Many youth groups such as the American Youth for Democracy have maintained their programs but lost their backing because idealism in accepting Communists gave way to apathy...
...sheets, etc.,--were hopelessly inadequate until the end of 1944. The greatest obstacle to effective I & E functioning was the psychology of the average G.I. Coupled with his dislike and distrust of anything military was his resistance toward compulsory education. The average American, brought up in perhaps the closest knit individualistic environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect, the Army was trying to break a bad American...
Indicative of the increasing concern of Americans over the plight of the homeless Jewish people of Europe is the growth of the Harvard Zionist Group within six months from a handful of students to a well-knit organization of over...
...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...