Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great degree, sexual abuses are a consequence of men banding together in tight-knit competitive groups. Like military platoons, ghetto gangs and college fraternities, athletic teams foster a spirit of exclusivity, camaraderie and solidarity. Jocks not only play together but also often eat and live together. And personal integrity is frequently a weak match for group loyalty. In a mob, especially one fueled by alcohol or drugs, individuals may not blanch at joining in a gang rape. "They will do anything to please each other," observes psychologist Sandler. "They are raping for each other. The woman is incidental...
...successor to the embattled Meese in August 1988, Thornburgh came to Washington with a reputation as a moderate former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania. But he brought along a tight-knit group of cronies from Harrisburg and shut out almost everyone else. Even Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer, a Washington attorney, was excluded from the 8:30 a.m. staff meeting. Moreover, Thornburgh's sometimes imperious manner grated with Congress, the press and Justice employees. Problems mounted quickly...
...direct connections between these profiles must necessarily begin and end here, however, for it would be a stretch to find a common thread of understanding linking together a football player from upstate New York with a social activist from a tight-knit Latino community in California...
...Holleran returns to the team's close-knit nature as the key to success and fun at Harvard--two things she plans to bring with her to her new job as an English teacher and squash and lacrosse coach at Deerfield Academy...
Students say that Women's Studies is such a tight-knit community that they often develop relationships with faculty that they are not formally studying with. More than one student recalls instances when professors they did not even know approached them to comment on work they had done...