Word: knit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they have been knit together by understanding. Can the arrangements of the peacemakers hold unless they are understood by the peoples to whom they apply? Can any degree of world government and law succeed without the consent of the governed; i.e., a world consensus about what is true and truly advantageous...
...first of these vernal mistakes is a rather loose-knit little clique instigated by someone known only to close subordinates as "The Howl." To everybody else "The Howl" looks like a loose-knit booby wearing a Win With Willkie mask and carrying a machete (a loose-knit pocket knife) and scaring the devil out of a couple of characters he found playing pinball in the lower reaches of J entry (left stairway...
Insult Returned. John Lewis knit his thunderous brows and growled: "One way to get cooperation is to give the workers of this country enough...
...music room in the palatial villa of Mrs. Lafcadio Mifflin at Newport. Mrs. Mifflin, a majestic woman in a slim-pin Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...
Besides, Sergeant Malmuth, I don't know how to knit, but I'm a darn good stenographer...