Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad and sweeping, as the judges say it is, it comes from viewing the high plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor: "Those 25 Gs could have fallen into much, much less able hands...
...says, "God did much for Rio." He chattered with his two sons, Oswaldo Jr., 26, and Euclides, 27, and his daughter Delminda, 24. He dashed next door to see his 74-year-old mother, Doña Luiza, who bore 21 children and continues to advise the close-knit family brood on all matters public and private. On Saturday, Racing Enthusiast Aranha drove over to the Jockey Club, watched his three-year-old Itororó win a $2,000 race, and got another ovation...
...Naval Operations, President Truman last week picked Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 56, commander of the Pacific Fleet. A onetime chief of naval personnel, Denfeld was a proved administrator, well-liked on Capitol Hill, but no airman. It was a clear-cut victory for the Navy's tightly knit battleship clique...
...program is a well integrated, closely knit unit. Taken as a whole it would work for the best interest of that amorphous character, the consumer. It would promote that ubiquitous concept, the public good. If it is pressured into oblivion, even more drastic measures may be required at some date in the not too far distant future...
Signal-Caller. The State Department, for its part, would like to see the conferees at Bogota limit themselves to one main enterprise: a more effective and tightly knit union of the Americas. This would be achieved by treaties to strengthen Pan American cooperation in military and political matters. State hopes that the conference will avoid embarrassing floor-wrangling over economic aid. Such controversies, successfully postponed at the Rio Conference last summer, should be postponed again, the U.S. feels, until a purely economic meeting to be held later...