Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many women also donated hand-knitted sweaters, mufflers and caps to the fighting Americans in Europe. "Everyone was always carrying knitting around," Cohen remembers. "I couldn't imagine [the products] were very useful, but they took it to lectures often and instead of taking copious notes, they would knit...
Police arrived at a drab cinder-block real-estate office to find Mansur dressed in slippers and wrapped in a white-knit blanket; he was slumped in an easy chair with the telltale mask strapped to his face. A string tied to the middle finger of his left hand was connected to a clip on the tubes running from two cylinders labeled CARBON MONOXIDE. The body was gaunt, the skin yellow-green. For the past few months, Mansur had been too sick to drive and carried a morphine pump around with him to combat the pain. "He was in hell...
...announced by ABC, CBS and NBC over the past two weeks (Fox is scheduled to weigh in this week) are a conservative, back-to-basics lot. The theme is old-fashioned, mass-audience entertainment, the kinds of shows the whole family can watch. Sitcoms next fall will favor tight-knit family units rather than funny workplaces, acerbic yuppies or angst-ridden teens. No quirky small towns, few hard-edged action shows and, surprisingly, only two new series with blacks in the leading roles (though several from last year's bumper crop are returning). If it all sounds retrogressive...
...after Hillary picked up Chelsea from school, to get peanut butter and cereal, only to find that they had insufficient cash and no checkbook. Lately the First Mom has been helping her daughter make the perilous journey from age 12 to 13 in a new city without the close-knit extended family and friends of Little Rock. The elder Rodhams had stayed in the Governor's mansion with Chelsea when her parents were away, and the death of her grandfather added to the trauma of the move. Most days Hillary ends her work in time to be upstairs when Chelsea...
...workers lost their jobs and gained no compensation or assistance from the Japanese government, according to the flier. "These dislocated Koreans formed a small, close-knit community called Utoro that has lasted until today," the flier said...