Word: knit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest Pan Am thorn is that, bit by bit, TACA may gather the operating rights to knit its South American system together. A new TACA affiliate is getting under way in Paraguay, and one is on paper in Argentina, awaiting more favorable diplomatic weather. Unless TACA loses its market-South & Central America's need for a poor man's airline-more are likely to follow...
Adams topped the newly-formed V-12 A-B five, 28 to 21, yesterday. Although still a far cry from a well-knit unit, the A-B squad showed considerable ability...
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...
...country have a free choice of parties and candidates. Britain asserted its right and duty to keep order in liberated countries until such a free choice could be freely exercised. Without apparently advancing any alternative, the U.S. condemned this as "outside influence." Britain's worry was that tightly-knit Communist minorities, aided by disorder, might take control of Western Europe, country by country. To this possible outcome the U.S. statement, on its face, proclaimed indifference...
...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...