Word: knits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleasant dream, the details fade as soon as the film ends. Annaud and Dawaere, lestetes-unis, have great fun showing us the delicate power of restraint, even extending their satire to religion. But they never manage to draw us into their world. It ultimately remains much like the tight-knit, snobbish French villages they try to ridicule: neat, petty, and deluded by a mistaken sense of self-importance...
Johnson: I don't know how to answer that because I have never satisfactorily resolved it in my own mind. They are a very tightly-knit group, the Carter people; there are very few of them, and he is intensely loyal to them--to very few, to Hamilton, Jody; Frank [Moore] was with him in the state house in Georgia. He's clearly going to defend them at all costs. I think he feels these are unfair assaults on the part of wicked Washington, and all the people who despised him anyhow, and the people in the press...
...attacks occurred nearly simultaneously at about 9 a.m. Saturday and lasted only 20 minutes apiece. No one was injured, and the workers were able to free themselves within an hour. In the Chicago assault, some half-a-dozen terrorists, with white knit scarves around their heads, entered the Carter office in the downtown Loop. Armed with rifles and pistols, they ordered the seven campaign workers, in English: "Cooperate and lie down, and you won't get hurt." The terrorists tied up the workers with clothesline and taped their mouths. One hostage thought that one of the intruders had been...
...party's perplexing silence on the exile of scientist Andrei Sakharov has alienated academics and intellectuals. Not since 1956, when Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin threw the PCF and its hard line Stalinism into a blender, has the party experienced such internal dissent. As the party splits, a tight-knit nucleus of traditional militants assumes control, ignoring the petitions of frustrated members...
...feel, good about American medal winners. This positive feeling is the reason why advertisers stake millions of dollars on TV campaigns based on winners like Mark Spitz and Bruce Jenner. Our affection for these men is real. It is worth money. Imagine how much more a smaller, closer-knit nation feels for athletes...