Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest specialized press in the U.S. gathered in Dallas last week, and most of them turned out in an odd journalistic garb: black suits, black hats, clerical collars. Some 350 of them came from 48 states for the annual convention of the Catholic Press Association, a vast, closely knit (yet loosely governed) publishing empire with a total magazine and newspaper circulation of almost 24 million. Today, as Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno told the delegates, the Catholic press is "reaching more people and exerting a greater influence over American thought than at any time in the past...
...tight-fitting pressure suit made of elastic cotton-rayon knit material has been developed at Duke University for victims of low blood pressure who are in danger of keeling over when they get out of bed or stand up. It keeps blood from pooling in the abdomen and legs...
...matter how ludicrous, was translated by him into inimitable poetry. But he has survived, too, as Paul Valery said, as "the very embodiment of power"-a power that no French poet since his day has been able to shake off. "Never," concludes Maurois, "has a nation been so closely knit with one single body of writing . . . Paris, whole and entire, sounds one great consistent Ode to Victor Hugo's honor...
Loose T-shirts can be worn with shorts and pedal pushers and are big news fashion-wise for beachwear when worn over swimsuits. Individual details on T-shirts include bloused cut, rib knit boarders, slashed sides, or sailor collars...
...bottom. On summer days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored him in his studies so expertly that he skipped to the third grade a month after he entered school...