Word: knit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CURRENT housing system--implemented last year with the support of the Undergraduate Council--is more than just a drawn-out, complex, frustrating and anxiety-producing process. It betrays one of Harvard's most prized ideals--bringing students with different backgrounds together into tight-knit residential communities. By retaining a housing system that encourages us to live in self-sorted clusters with people of similar interests, character and outlook, we deny ourselves much of what Harvard is best able to offer...
Harvard is a tight-knit community, and students called as witnesses by the Ad Board should not have to face the anger of their roommates or the guys down the hall...
...students interviewed say that the current protest in China is the biggest topic of conversation in the close-knit Chinese community here in Cambridge. Many are worried, however, that unless the students are well-organized, they won't have much impact on the policy decisions of Communist Party leaders. Others fear that these marches, which began late last year, could influence the Party to reverse steps made toward political reform...
...also impressed upon us that we should respect our elders. I remember when I was little, they said I asked a lot of questions. It wasn't the thing to do at the time. But it was a very happy childhood. Because we had such a close-knit family, I was determined that I should also be very attentive to my children...
...morning. I would think to myself, This is getting to be too much. Then I got to be a soap-opera addict. It was the only thing to keep me company, so I'd listen to the radio. Thank God for transistor radios! I also learned how to knit, things I wasn't particularly attracted to before. Suddenly I became such a homebody, knitting while listening to soap operas. Then trying to cook. It was really a very boring existence. If I hadn't had my religion and made my vows to stick with this man for better or worse...