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Word: knits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living in a very close-knit community. I say this because no sooner had a column on Illinois Jacquet appeared than a friend of mine showed up--looking agitated and somewhat annoyed...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Real Cerebral | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

Konitz looked as if he were having a hard time pushing 24. He had short cropped blonde hair and wore thick horned rim glasses. He was wearing a blue oxford button-down and a black knit tie, and seemed perpetually bent at the knees. Very tired...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Real Cerebral | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

NATO's complex cumbersomeness is chiefly on the political and economic side. On the military side, General Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE command has settled into a tight, efficient routine. At Lisbon, NATO's chiefs (numbering about 30 ministers) hoped to fashion a close-knit governing board of twelve full-time members with enough power and privacy to make big political and economic decisions, the way Eisenhower's SHAPE can make military ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Serious Joke | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Smoker would serve a definite purpose if it were held in October or early November. In March the freshman class is about as closely knit as it ever becomes, and there is no need for a "get acquainted" party. It's in the early fall that freshmen need such an affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democratic Dabble | 2/8/1952 | See Source »

...zany doings. Most of them are annual events dealing with the freshman class, which in Princeton is about as popular with the rest of the University as an untrained puppy at a bridge party. The "frosh" are alternately persecuted and pampered until the class has become a close-knit, self-reliant, if a little obnoxious, unit...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Generations Of Princetonians Love Tradition | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

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