Word: knits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Questions. Since Brazil is too vast and loosely knit for parties to develop rigid principles or programs, no clear-cut campaign issues had emerged. Instead, the Big Three and their parties entered into a welter of double-decking local deals and cross-endorsements that aligned them in some states with lesser parties and local chieftains, and in some states with each other. Amid such entanglements, even the outlawed Communist Party found little difficulty in sneaking names onto the candidates' lists of one party or another all over Brazil. Politicos were too glad to pick up any added support...
When Cole first got into the swim (in 1926), he startled the entire bathing suit industry by lowering the backs of his knit swimsuits by eight inches (and raising the blood pressure of various municipal censors). Later he put out white bathing suits, which were considered daring at the time because of their alleged transparency when wet. Since then, he has built a $3,500,000 annual business with 1,000 retail outlets in the U.S. and seven foreign countries, and likes to think that he sets the style trends for the bathing suit industry...
...under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains NBC's Chicago Station Manager Jules Herbuveaux: "New York thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that the stage can't cure, and Hollywood thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that movies can't cure...
...maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight time over all other west coast squadrons. All of the pilots were combat veterans, all but eight were married...
...over the world, Harold Stanley Marcus, boss of Dallas' $22-million-a-year Neiman-Marcus specialty store, has scored many a scoop in the fashion business. Last year Neiman-Marcus rang up a tidy $800,000 profit by supplying wives & daughters of well-heeled Texans with hand-knit French girdles at $79.50, Italian silk handmade nightgowns with Trapunto embroidery at $150 and Aleutian mink coats...