Word: knit
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...before existed in such a dimension." Chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge of the Molln case -- his first involving right-wing terror, despite some 3,400 acts of violence by radicals in the past two years -- and within days officials rounded up two suspects from a loosely knit far-right group in the Molln area...
Clinton's covenant talk mines a long American tradition, running right back to the Puritans. "It is of the nature and essence of every society," said John Winthrop, "to be knit together by some covenant." But what kind of covenant? Winthrop's was based on obedience to a Calvinist God, which is not something Clinton is likely to call on. This is where familiarity comes in, to provide the needed emotional glue...
...soul" of Clinton's foreign policy team, for orchestrating the strategy that managed to neutralize voters' concerns about Clinton's inexperience on the world stage. Characteristically, Lake was not hanging around Little Rock or jockeying for West Wing office space. He had already returned to his cows, his close-knit family and his students at Mount Holyoke College. Friends tease him about being Cincinnatus, but his love of rural independence is no act. "I moved up here because I did not want to spend the next however many years of my life trying to get some job in Washington...
...understand that it's their house, and it's aclose knit group and we're intruding. But wereally don't have much of a choice," said Julia A.Hunter...
...council's problems are related to the very existence of an inner circle of council big-wigs. Heinicke has helped construct a tightly knit group which many members say is impossible to penetrate. Members have complained to The Crimson about a U.C. "old boys network" that makes some feel excluded from major decisions...