Word: knits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During times of external stress, such as during the Northeast power blackout, people commonly band together in a close-knit fraternity until the threat eases. This bomb scare was a similar situation. There was an immediate threat to the lives of the passengers and crew and this common danger unified the group; there was a sense of solidarity through shared experience. The threatened community was not completely closed, however, Passengers were not allowed to leave the immediate area but police, airline, and FBI officials freely came and went...
...Israel's closely knit, family-oriented society, its people often stay abreast of the war by word of mouth. When the Israelis captured and carried off an entire Egyptian radar station on Dec. 26, half of Tel Aviv knew about it within 24 hours. "My wife heard about it at the hairdresser's," an Israeli officer recalls. "My daughter heard about it at her dancing school." But the government did not confirm the story to newsmen for more than a week, and has been similarly slow or suppressive with other information for foreigners...
...topless bathing suit. Although he sold 3,000 copies at $25 apiece, he did not really mean to market it. He made the suit mainly as a "statement" in support of the "liberated look" of the late 1960s-a look he further promoted with his No-Bra bra, clinging knit minidresses, "Swiss cheese" swimsuits and see-through blouses. All that pioneering so exhausted Rudi that he treated himself to a year's sabbatical in order to restore his flagging energies; he convalesced comfortably in Tangier, Paris and the Hollywood hills. Now Gernreich is back on the scene, a radical...
...look great, just great!" gushed Rudi when they returned. A cosmetician applied a thin coat of flesh-colored makeup to their naked bodies, and it was time to get into their costumes, such as they were. Both models dressed identically in black-and-white monokinis, covered with white knit bell-bottom trousers and rib-length black-and-white tank tops. Then, while photographers snapped pictures and Gernreich gave cues and directions, the models rehearsed their act for the show. Off came the tank tops. Down dropped the trousers. The monokinis slid slowly to the floor. After stepping to one side...
...Convinced that a strong public school system is just as important to their children as it is to blacks, local white leaders began more than a month ago to prepare their city for the shock of final desegregation. A loosely knit committee of prominent whites met with the city's whites, urging them to support the public schools rather than abandon them. School administrators worked through the Christmas holiday to shift classrooms and equipment, and persuaded all of the system's 186 teachers to stay on the job. Even stu dents joined in the effort to pre serve...