Word: knit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...freedom from living agony, I feel the loss more than I had thought I should. We were a couple outside the ordinary. It was in 1906 that by mutual consent and after unconscious trials we definitely adopted self-restraint as the rule of life. To my great joy this knit us together as never before. ... I now come to your address which you delivered before the Legislature and of which you have kindly sent me a copy...
Divorced. By Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, Los Angeles broker; after three years of marriage, for each the second, one child; in Los Angeles. Said she: Crane's quarreling kept her nervously unraveled...
...first knotty problem in 1884, at the age of three, when an uncle taught him to tie a reef (square) knot. Since then he has hobnobbed with sailors, cowboys, circus men, weavers, tailors, butchers, truck drivers, Boy Scouts, steeple jacks, cobblers, electric linemen, "and with elderly ladies who knit." He has watched oxen slung for shoeing, accompanied tree surgeons aloft, shadowed poachers to examine their snares...
This startling association of terms raised a dither. Said Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's well-knit Communist Party: "I do not know what the Catholic Communist Party is. I will have to find out." Even if Voce d'Operaia turned out to be short-lived, it was a testimonial to the growing popularity of Russia and Communism among Italians...