Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best regarded as an example of a literary and intellectual way of life that will never again flourish in American society. More than anything else, the diary succeeds in conveying the network of personal and professional ties that bound together the elites from many different worlds into a close-knit bunch that ate and drank, gossiped and traveled together despite ideological differences...
...abstract expressionism's strict, non-representational regimen. He wanted, as he put it, to stop producing "paintings" and start painting "pictures." Two years later, he submitted a clearly representational work, Kids on Bikes, 1950, to a competitive show -- and won, to the astonishment of the Bay Area's close-knit art community. "My God," remarked Park's friend, former student and fellow painter Richard Diebenkorn. "What's happened to David...
...breakthrough was accomplished by skilled undercover work, Government officials told TIME. In the past, investigators had been unable to penetrate the closely knit fraternities formed by Japanese businesses. But in June 1986 the Naval Investigative Service adopted a new tactic when it began probing the Star Friendship Association, a consortium of 160 Japanese construction firms organized for the express purpose of raising prices on contracts at the huge U.S. naval base in Yokosuka...
...integrated the party, in the process helping to remove from its seal the white rooster that had long served as a symbol of white supremacy. In 1968 he led the first racially mixed state delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. As a lawyer, Vance shocked the tight-knit legal community by breaking a gentlemen's agreement to keep blacks off juries in Birmingham. President Jimmy Carter fulfilled Vance's lifelong ambition by nominating him to the federal bench in 1977. He became part of the Eleventh Circuit four years later...