Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, at the eastern edge of Gallup, New Mexico, when the girl picked me up. It was about nine o'clock. Thursday morning, August 14. The girl driving the car looked about five feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hemless mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a smail, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back. There were two long-haired guys with...
Collins is the darling of tennis journalism, and he was making the rounds in style, resplendent in white duck trousers and a knit shirt. We had several minutes of light conversation, and he seemed to be fairly reasonable, Mrs. Garrett notwithstanding...
...afternoon his face broke into a broad smile. Taking advantage of his "townie" birth and Harvard affiliation, Hayes ran well throughout Cambridge-an unusual feat for a first time candidate in a city where elections, though run at-large, generally are decided by tight-knit neighborhood support...
Reaction to the essays was loud and expected. The Times Literary Supplement accused the authors of "prejudices that verged on the hysterical." The Manchester Guardian called them a "tightly knit bunch of righties." Many indignant teachers pointed to a 1967 government report showing that over the past two decades, eleven-year-olds have increased the rate at which they learn to read by more than 24%. Meanwhile, a new stress on writing and new math has livened up teaching throughout the country. The loudest reaction, perhaps, came from Education Secretary Edward Short who declared: "The publication of the Black Paper...
Childlike Vista. The record's unity is best illustrated by the tightly knit and unpretentious way it combines a variety of styles. Among them: old-line rock 'n' roll (Oh! Darling), low blues (I Want You), high camp (Maxwell's Silver Hammer), folk (Here Comes the Sun). Though the listener here and there finds such things as a vocal chorus or a swash of electronic sound, most of the time the instrumental textures are uncluttered by overdubbing. Rarely has John played better guitar than on I Want You (She's So Heavy), a cunning combination...