Word: knit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early Riser. What qualifies Gray to head the FBI? The son of a railroad worker, Gray grew up in a closely knit family that moved from St. Louis to Houston. He won an appointment to Annapolis in 1936, and graduated 172nd in his 456-man class. In the Navy he was an early riser and a man who devoted himself intensely to any task. Volunteering for submarine duty, Gray took part in five combat patrols against the Japanese in the Pacific. After the war, he was given command of a sub, the Tiru, then promoted to head a division with...
...experiences and feelings shared with other oarsmen were the essential factors which made crew worthwhile. The feeling of a boat working together and swinging along swiftly is not matched by many other sensations. After a race, the teammates in a boat are a close-knit unit, because they share the emotional and physical drain that has been spent in the race...
...tightly knit organization was ir possible in the South, but in the North discipline was the key to survival. Notes were passed in the latrine, exercise am prayers were kept up, and a camp chronicler was even appointed to record the history of the captivity. By late 1969 such discipline had carried the prisoners through the worst...
Shuffling onto the bare, makeshift stage of Boston's Church of the Covenant, Al Pacino's Richard could be taken for a failed Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...
...biggest mistake many of Dunlop's adversaries made was not to take him seriously. He took over a splintered Faculty in 1970 and in the next several years skillfully knit the deeply-rooted divisions back together, sending independent-minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. By the end of his term, he had elicited a measure of respect from all segments of a Faculty that had deeply distrusted his predecessor, Franklin L. Ford. He restored a certain reverence for his office that had been absent for some time. Even his opponents on the Faculty capitulated...