Word: knits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is the most close-knit group of athletes I've ever met," Smith said. "They're a great group. They work very well together. I've never met a group of people who are that supportive. It's like one big family...
Arafat can claim little responsibility for the eruption of anger in the occupied territories last December. It took several weeks for the P.L.O. to align itself with the intifadeh's loose-knit command. To this day, the bulk of intifadeh authority resides with local popular committees. Still, the intifadeh's young leaders recognize the P.L.O.'s role as a touchstone for Palestinians who live both inside and outside the occupied territories. The uprising has also improved the P.L.O.'s image. For years, violence and terror were important weapons in the campaign for independence. The intifadeh has changed perceptions, painting...
Until he died four months ago at 62 of a heart attack, Werner Nachmann was the most powerful figure in West Germany's close-knit, 30,000-member Jewish community. As chairman of the Central Council of Jews for 22 years, he played a key role in German-Jewish reconciliation. At a funeral ceremony, Chancellor Helmut Kohl eulogized Nachmann as a "moral authority" who had "made his mark on the history of our republic...
When the daily chores are done, the prisoners attend political-education classes or learn to knit and sew. Whenever possible, they smuggle the goods to the outside for sale, donating the profits to the Senderista cause. Several times a week around noon, the 63 Senderista women and 120 men in a nearby cellblock break for an "agitation," in which they rattle the bars and hurl earsplitting insults at their guards. For recreation, there is volleyball in a pavilion's patio, under red-painted panels that pay homage to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Close to the top of the walls...
...herring packer, his grandfather a cantor and kosher butcher, his uncle an amateur violinist. The imagery of music and shtetl folklore, mingled with the face of his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Bella Ro- senfeld, furnished the unaltering ground of his work for 80 years, long after the close-knit and weak little societies it represented had been incinerated by Hitler and Stalin. "All the little fences, the little cows and sheep, all the Jews, looked to me as original, as ingenuous and as eternal as the buildings in Giotto's frescoes," he reminisced...