Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework in the center of campus, and at the University of California at Santa Barbara, they threw a mock fashion show, lecturing on sweatshops while parading down the catwalk...
...Malenfant puts it, "The problem with all testing is that it kind of depends on where the person is starting out. If I can already knit, I can probably make Argyle socks more quickly," she says...
...June 26 is Why Does This Office Smell Bad? Day. While the homeless go ignored, almost 28.5 million Americans bought their dogs Christmas presents last year. A woman I know throws her dogs a Bar Mitzvah every year. That's not even correct on a religious level. People knit their dogs things. Now I've never knitted anything, but it looks like a pretty serious endeavor. If getting married meant knitting something instead of buying a ring, there would be even more out-of-wedlock births...
Students studying in foreign cities say that adjusting to the social atmosphere abroad can demand an effort beyond that required by the close-knit community of American schools. Students at foreign schools are generally more independent of their Universities, socializing with friends they made before college...
...other assailant was a white male with a black jacket, a black knit cap and a red sweatshirt, the victims said...