Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would enjoy a friendlier place in the College if classmates could be brought in for meals. At least, they say, older guests should be invited more often. But these movements generally run into polite but firm opposition from the graduates, who remember a day when the Clubs were close-knit little bands of intimate friends, which might be broken up by frequent intrusions of outsiders, no matter how attractive and pleasant. The Clubs, tradition-bound as they are, are strongly tied to graduate opinion...
...them all, the project that won the swiftest approval-and could do most to knit the Commonwealth together-was a proposal by Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming for a globe-girdling communication system linking virtually every Commonwealth land. Stretching from Britain across the Atlantic to Canada and on to New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan and Africa, the coaxial cable will join all nations by telephone for the first time. Cost: $246 million. Target date...
Millionaire Byrd* knew hard times as a youth; plain-born Lawyer-Politician Almond is far from wealthy). Almond has described the organization as well as anyone: "It's like a club, except it has no bylaws, constitution or dues. It's a loosely knit association, you might say, between men who share the philosophy of Senator Byrd." Almond need only have added what he himself learned the hard way: that those who deviate from the Byrd philosophy soon cease to be gentlemen by organization standards...
...23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis...
...date, most members of the tight-knit Baltimore families that own the Sun-papers have refused to listen to the clink of Newhouse coin. But a minority still hope to round up the shares needed to meet Newhouse's bid. If Newhouse does buy the Sunpapers, the deal will be by far the largest in U.S. newspaper history, topping the $18,642,000 he paid in 1955 for the Birmingham News and its affiliated properties, including radio and TV stations (TIME...