Word: knot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tread water, take off your pants or jacket, tie a knot in the legs or sleeves, button them up and swing them through the air so that the arms and legs fill with air. Then twist the open ends so that the air stays in and you have a life preserver...
...informal collection of R.A.F. air vice marshals, pilots, war correspondents and others invited to meet George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The King's manner with his airmen is easy, comradely. The King likes ribald stories, has a large store of them, enjoys standing in a corner with a knot of men swapping ribaldries...
...have reached a pretty pass when judges recommend that undefended cases should be dealt with by magistrates' courts. The only preventive for divorce is to make it more difficult. Young and thoughtless people would not rush into marriage if they knew it was very difficult to untie the knot and . . . many tiffs would be composed if the partners knew a divorce was hard to get and a disgrace...
...Washington. One knot of the tangle was in Washington. Tall, dark, earnest Dr. Enrique Lozada, "Head of the Bolivian Mission," was in the odd position of trying to secure recognition for a Government which he himself did not entirely recognize. An avowed and convincing liberal, he has lived 14 years in the U.S., and has no direct connection with any Bolivian party. Just after the La Paz revolt he quit his job as adviser to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Last week he paced disconsolately around the orphaned Bolivian Embassy, not knowing what would happen...
...mushrooming U.S. merchant marine (50 million tons in 1944) is about to add a new and useful type of vessel-a small (4,000 ton), fast (12 knot), and economical (diesel-powered) freighter...