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Word: knit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read from the Bible, bowed their heads in the Oval Office, and prayed. All the while, the Budget Director's proud wife LaBelle insisted that her husband had brilliantly cleared himself of wrongdoing, and appealed directly to the President that her husband stay in office. But the close-knit Georgians turned in the end to the advice of shrewd Washington veterans and wisely ended Lance's eight-month career as Director of the Office of Management and Budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Behind the Painful Decision to Quit | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Besides the conditioning aspects of the camp, McCurdy claims that the experience is perhaps most valuable for intangible factors like team spirit that develop there. Probably more than any other Harvard sports team, the runners are a tight-knit group. The reason: McCurdy...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: On Your Mark... | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...more narrowly based and larger than most. One count shows 51 Georgians on the White House staff, 18 at the Office of Management and Budget and another 100 scattered throughout the Executive Branch. Observes a Carter campaign associate of the Georgians: "They are a breed unto themselves, close-knit, playing all their cards close to the vest." At week's end, the closest card of all was still being played by Jimmy Carter, who had made no known move to resolve his most pressing personnel-and personal-problem: what to do about Friend Bert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Why Jimmy Stays Loyal | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...specialist in psychosomatic medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School, Lynch argues that social isolation brings emotional and then physical deterioration. Boston Irishmen, he notes, have a far higher coronary death rate than their brothers left behind in the more closely knit culture of the old sod. Nevada, a freewheeling singles-oriented state, has a higher rate of death from heart disease than neighboring Utah, with its Mormon tradition of close family ties. One study showed that in Roseto, an Italian American community in Pennsylvania, there were only one-third as many heart attacks as in culturally diversified surrounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Loneliness Can Kill You | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...largest privately owned fleets. So how is Christina Onassis doing in her first job? At the very least, the willful and somewhat impetuous only surviving child of the great Golden Greek, Aristotle Onassis, who died in March 1975, has given the shipping world some surprises. At first, the closely knit Greek shipping fraternity expected her to steer clear of the business altogether. Then, when she asserted her rights as beneficiary of 47.5% of her father's 50-ship fleet of supertankers, bulk carriers and smaller vessels, and made known her intention to manage the business herself, folks wondered whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: How Christina's Doing | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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