Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are an estimated 20,000 half-caste children in Korea; 500 to 600 more are born each year. Sadly, even in their homeland, they are displaced persons from birth. Under the Confucian concept of tightly knit families, Korea's half-castes are considered outcasts. And the mixed-blood children remind many Koreans of the shame of widespread prostitution and of the subservient role Koreans have often had to play to the bigger and richer...
Bluhdorn then decided on a strategically wise maneuver. He used his profits to buy into a more secure and promising business: auto replacement parts. In a Balkanized industry that has thousands of small suppliers, he figured that the best goal was to knit together a nationwide network of manufacturing plants, warehouses and distributors. First he bought and merged a small-parts manufacturer and a parts distributor, then gradually parlayed profits and loans to add more companies...
...when it was chartered in its present form, the OAS was envisioned as a regional United Nations that would provide mutual defense, promote economic development and knit the hemisphere together into a tight community. Performance has fallen short of promise, and history is quickly passing the OAS by. Castro-Communist guerrillas are striking at half a dozen nations, inter-American trade is lagging, population pressures are mounting, and peasant masses are clamoring for social and political change. In all this, the OAS remains relatively powerless to act or even serve as a catalyst in the formation of a joint hemisphere...
There he stayed for 17 years. Police kept him on their "wanted" list, but cunningly, Yvonne Vasseur shopped for two on her tiny widow's pension by dividing her purchases among several shops. She knit him special slippers with felt soles, so that the neighbors would not hear him. In his garret Vasseur learned seven languages to add to his French and German; she learned Latin to help him along, brought him down to watch TV on quiet nights. In 1962, police discovered him accidentally. Paying a routine call on Mme. Vasseur, they rang the neighbor's doorbell...
...tweed suits no longer sag in the seat and buckle at the knee, keep their shape as well as an all-Dacron suit. Lace, once too fragile for anything but brides and banquet tables, now can be used for all-purpose coats and dresses. Women's heavy knitted suits and dresses, often made double-thick to prevent stretching and wrinkling, can be just as neat and twice as light if made of bonded single knit...