Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the committee got set for opposition witnesses. To the surprise of everybody, only three turned up: crusty, 92-year-old "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, hero of the 1894 March on Washington; one John Bond Trevor, of the American Coalition, a loose-knit, isolationist organization; and a New York automobile dealer named Hamilton Fish...
Shanghai was the focus of a loosely knit and potentially dangerous Japanese fifth column. U.S. newsmen reported that it was composed of Black Dragon terrorists and diehard operatives of Japanese intelligence services. The fifth-column objectives were said to be: 1) promoting anti-democratic propaganda; 2) promoting Chinese civil strife...
...Fate, "I find they had their beginning in fragile Chance; were born of little moments that shine for me curiously in the past. Slight the impulse that made me take this turning at the crossroads, trivial and fortuitous the meeting, and light as gossamer the thread that first knit me to my friend.... So I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Why, today, perhaps, or next week. I may hear a voice, and, packing up my Gladstone bag, follow it to the ends of the world...
...Transport Command-and boss of the Hump lifeline into China-last week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...
General's Drumfire. The Secretary's reasoning was closely knit, but it was General of the Army George Catlett Marshall who laid down the most effective drumfire. Probably more than any other citizen, George Marshall is trusted by Congress. The members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, who had stood as a mark of respect to the neatly turned-out, pink-faced Chief of Staff when he entered the room, were clearly impressed as the old soldier sent over his shots...