Word: knit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubled textile industry, double knit clothes-apparel made of specially knitted material instead of woven cloth-stand out like a bright golden thread in a frayed gray shawl. The upheaval caused by double knits has brought fresh earnings and excitement to the industry, created new textile firms and technology, provided a rich source of sales for profit-parched merchants, and satisfied restless consumer demand for increasingly varied fashions...
Largely in the past four years, double knits have sewed up about 35% of the annual $14 billion in women's and children's wear sales. Now double knits are the hottest new item in men's wear, and are expected to capture half of that $11 billion market in the next three or four years. Hart Schaffner & Marx reports that double knits make up half of the suits being manufactured under the H.S. & M. label, which are priced from $135 to $200. Double knit departments have been opened at Sears, Roebuck stores, and at least half...
Robert Jackson was, like his wife, from downstate Illinois. However, while she had enjoyed the freedom and stability of growing up nestled among a large well-knit clan in Harrisburg, he had been abandoned at an early age in the river town of East St. Louis. The demands of survival seem to have burdened Robert Jackson with a particular psychological afflication that was endemic to black men whose youth was consumed in Depression America. As it dictated on a less severe level to other men, survival demanded of Robert Jackson and men like him that they make an operational adjustment...
What he found was a relatively close-knit community, a "good block" with "good buildings" housing "good people." Yet the homiest of the five articles to run so far-long treatises on the comity of the postman and the everyday frustrations of shopping-fail to dispel the notion that New York neighborliness is little more than a tenuous alliance. In fact, Corry's best piece so far lists the precautions taken by residents of the "good block" to keep from being robbed, raped, beaten or killed: "George Bassat keeps a club next to his front door. Mr. Brouwer...
...power of irrational history--Buchner watches himself as he is swept along to a senseless, inevitable death. Sabel's treatment of the playwright is, strangely enough, almost entirely appropriate to historical fact, and a paradigm for the present as well. The two-act-play is skillfully consistent and well-knit, but its concentration of wit and the abruptness of scene-changes could only confuse an audience. Some plays are meant to be read rather than produced: that granted, Sabel's Play...is an admirable work...