Word: knitting
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...needs only to walk down the stairs to an otherwise unassuming Straus C basement. There’s a piano, sheet music, a pitch-pipe and eight dedicated and talented singers. While the Fallbacks are all business in rehearsal, though, their interactions reveal a close-knit group. Fallback Maria A. May ’06 cites the group’s “good energy and tight friendship” as their biggest asset. Members even stuck around after an intense practice session to help Neil K. Mehta ’06 prepare his solo for the impending Krokodiloes...
During World War II, people were exhorted to knit socks for our soldiers. REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR. PURL HARDER, the posters said. The War on Terror poses a special challenge, as it's difficult to make the public feel involved--no tinfoil collections, no sacrifice of silk stockings to make parachutes, no national meatless days. After Sept. 11, the President told people to go shopping. This time officials actually provided a list. "We have to give people something to do," Ridge told lawmakers, which is how duct tape officially became a staple, like flashlights and Band-Aids. This week Ridge will...
...Social Studies concentrator in Dunster House, was born in Guatemala City but raised in a suburb of Chicago. He is the first member of his family to attend college, the first graduate of his high school to attend an Ivy League college, and the first member of his tightly-knit Pentecostal church to attend college...
...added that relocating Charlesview would be difficult for the close-knit community, with its many ties to nearby churches, especially St. Anthony’s parish and its school...
...Rapper-actor Ice-T's ICEWEAR will go on sale in the fall. With knit tops starting at $40, it's street-credible menswear at a lower price tag than Sean John...