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Word: knit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlawful for the women of the Junta de la Victoria to meet and knit sweaters. The General Confederation of Labor (150,000 members), Argentine equivalent of the A.F. of L., was disbanded. Charge: "Communist infiltration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA,Toward a Total State: Toward a Total State | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...think that I'll tell you about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

...series of technical agencies under the Council to knit Europe into an economic whole. Key transport would be under central control; no more tariffs would be permitted within Europe, although each nation could still determine its own trade policy toward the rest of the world. Europe would have a central bank, investment authority, cartel policy, etc., all aimed at a common (not uniform) economic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Plan for Europe | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Meat of these reports concerned a specially trained pornographic editor trained vigorously for the last three weeks to carry baseballs in his mouth. This crafty maneuver is calculated to outwit feeble-minded Lampoon Men who will furnish the opposition for the stalwarts. All loose-knit players will gather together to ask for aims at 2:30 in the CRIMSON edifice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON FATTED CALF TO BE DEVOURED BY CRIMSON TODAY | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

Organization. Behind the misty, Fascist cult of Hispanidad are powerful and wealthy organizations. Argentina's 1,000,000 Spaniards are knit together by several score fraternal groups and by the Catholic Church, many of whose dignitaries are pro-Fascist Italians and Spaniards. Principal coordinator for Fascist propaganda and Hispanidad organizations is the "Com-ision Organizadora del Primer Congreso de la Cultura Hispano-Americana," all of whose functionaries are well-known authoritarians, admirers of the "New Order" in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Hispanidad v. Pan America | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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