Word: knot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each team took advantage of the other's penalties and much of the scoring was done while several players were sitting in the punishment box. This was especially evident in the second period, when the Chasemen were penalized twice in four seconds and B.U. scored quickly to knot the count...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...
...Harry Truman had appointed. If the President was leaning over backward to avoid Woodrow Wilson's great mistake-turning a cold shoulder to U.S. politicians during the peacemaking-the Senate was more than willing to copy the stance. But the debate had made it plain that a knot of young progressives would not stay quiet if they thought the success of world politics was being sacrificed to politics at home...
...crisp, 20-knot wind was blowing over Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the sun was shining brilliantly when Lieut. Charles C. Taylor led his flight of five Navy torpedo bombers out over the Atlantic. To Instructor Taylor, combat-wise veteran of vast Pacific Ocean spaces, the routine navigation problem was simple. That was the last seen...
...loop over the beast's head, tie him to the corral fence and scramble for cover had been tempting. The nation was aching for an excuse to quit worrying about being blown up en masse. Both the President and the Army demanded immediate passage. So did an impressive knot of scientists-OSRD's Dr. Vannevar Bush, Harvard's President, Dr. James Bryant Conant and the Manhattan Project's Major General Leslie R. Groves...