Word: knittedness
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Both partners felt, as they set about chopping down trees, that they were transplanting New England to the Northwest. But though many a New Englander followed them, Portland persisted in developing a tone of its own. In 1851, for instance, the stumps in downtown streets were whitewashed to keep late...
In colorful knitted caps, in leather hats bedecked with coins, in high white hats of straw, 150,000 stolid Indian farmers and miners poured into an open field near the 1½-mile-high hamlet of Ucareña one day last week. Five airplanes appeared in the brassy sky...
In his cell in Prague's grim Pankrac prison one day last week, one of the world's most celebrated political prisoners got unexpected visitors. Two U.S. Embassy officials called on Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, 39, who had been in prison two years on a spying charge...
¶ "Woolen underclothes," snapped Dr. Gerald Gibbens in the Practitioner (London), "are expensive, difficult to wash, and are water-repellent, so that when we move with any energy at all we sweat and stay wet and itchy and smelly for the rest of the day." His remedy: "dishcloth underclothes," knitted...
Suffering and sighing through puppy romances, they took turns loving the lovely Marisa, a girl who was at least as strong on sentiment as she was on sex. It was all very serious, of course, but also a little comic, and Pratolini does a neat job of simultaneously pitying and...