Word: knits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK. The Communist Daily Worker, after first mumbling that there could be no anti-Semitism in Russia be cause it is prohibited by law, launched a tirade against "wealthy Jewish capitalists" and the "tightly knit group of Jewish members of the Wall Street finance capitalist strata...
...began when prisoners in each of the six compounds massed into a close-knit and obviously carefully planned military drill in defiance of camp rules. The prisoners formed ranks on top of a high terrace. Guards at the foot of the steep incline all around ordered them to break it up, but their only answer was a shower of stones. A brisk wind made tear gas useless. A warning volley of shots had no effect. Three waves of taunting and jeering prisoners, with arms locked, bore down steadily on the guards. Lieut. Colonel George Miller, island commander, ordered his guards...
There is the difference in location; the bunching of six on "The Row," the spread of the other three, probably closer knit because of it. There are differences in physical plants, amount of dues, financial condition, and individual society rules...
...golf (middle 90s), drives his car at high speeds, fishes, reads Zane Grey westerns, and talks a blue streak. Inevitably, Billy's closest companions are members of his ten-man team, six of whom, including the pressagent, are also ministers. (His wife seldom travels with him.) A close-knit and devoted group, they handle the organizational details, and do their best to buffer Billy from the constant press of the crowd. They do their job so well that the president of the Southern Baptist Convention once told Graham: "Billy, I'm sure glad the Lord is easier...
...world is knit together today, there is nowhere where American influence does not count, nowhere where it may not be markedly beneficent," wrote London's Spectator last week. "Nothing indeed demonstrates that more clearly than the sense of vacuum created when