Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers rushed to join up at hastily improvised union locals across the country, Walesa and the other ex-strike leaders quickly found themselves at the head of a labor federation that soon grew to 10 million members?fully a quarter of the Polish population. Organizing and controlling the loosely knit federation, which was divided into 38 semiautonomous regional chapters, soon became a major challenge for Walesa and the national commission that he headed in Gdansk. The job was complicated by an almost insatiable drive for democracy among a rank and file that had no experience with the democratic process. Most...
Black Liberation Army. A loose-knit paramilitary band, the B.L.A. had its roots in the now defunct Black Panther Party and claimed about 100 members in the early 1970s. The group, which was responsible for numerous assaults on police officers, was eventually weakened by the arrests of many of its members, including, in 1973, Joanne Chesimard, the so-called soul of the B.L.A. Her dramatic escape from prison six years later may have reactivated the movement...
...very close-knit family. I don't think that the moving affected the kids that much. We were always in big cities, so that was a constant. But you know, I was a musician so that I could support my family; we had to move where there was work. That's part of show business, the moving. We're a show business family. There's my daughter, Talia Shire. And Francis. And my eldest son, who was a professor, is now writing novels. We're a family full of love...
...never seen him, rest assured that Art Buchwald looks just like you always imagined him. It didn't surprise me at all that when someone pointed him out recently he was short and wearing a rumpled, off-green sports jacket, journalist-gray pants and one of those knit ties cut straight across at the bottom. Chomping on a cigar--unlit, naturally--he was riding the down escalator into a hotel lobby, jabbering at a bunch of other Washington newspapermen. Then came an opportunity for a joke...
...hind him, he panics and quits on the spot," says Officer Byers. The younger guards, on the other hand, contend that each shift captain makes up his own rules for running the cell blocks. Prisoners seem baffled by the inconsistency. One convict was thrown into solitary for wearing a knit cap and tennis shoes; others have been handcuffed to their beds for little apparent reason. Says John Palladini, a discharged New Mexico convict who has served time in four federal prisons: "New Mexico is worse than any place, since the harassment is irrational. There's no consistency. There...