Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past history does not hold out much hope that the club will issue a sincere apology and reinstate Harper willingly. Instead, they will likely fight tooth and nail, sending the team into 1986 as close knit as usual, ready to challenge for the title...
...lieu of board games, today's child is barraged with a whole assortment of dolls and plastic toy figures. Usually these synthetic creatures come in a group, as in the case of the "Snugglebumms," a close-knit and multi-colored familial unit comprised of: "Momma Brightly," "Papa Gently," "Princess Snugglelina," "Snugglebumm's Kids" and "Tuggles" with omnipresent flower cart...
...athletes had the look of the superfit, the whites of their eyes blue white, calves plumped out like loving cups, dazzling teeth set in gums that probably will never know the heartbreak of gingivitis. Skoko had the look of a man grown weary with this age, and the knit of his brow suggested an approaching squall line...
...Paraguayan hinterland, complete with a Mercedes-Benz 280SL and four armed guards. According to Simon Wiesenthal, the doctor was most recently spotted last summer in a Mennonite village in Paraguay called Valendam. One year earlier, in fact, Wiesenthal had observed that the 10,000 members of that close-knit community would provide the perfect cover for the fugitive. "To the people living there," said Wiesenthal, "he is a refugee, and they are not in a hurry to deliver him to the police. The Mennonites believe in justice after death...
Altogether, by Wiesenthal's estimate, some 5,000 former Nazis found refuge in South America after the war. Protected and organized by a loosely knit network known as Kameradenwerk (Comrades' Enterprise), some of them have been living under their own names, and in considerable prosperity. Roughly 300 reportedly went to Paraguay. Eichmann and others lived in Argentina. Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," made his home in Bolivia before he was extradited to France in 1983. Two major catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible...