Word: knot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight pennant race will have to come out of its knot this afternoon when the two teams meet in New York at 2 p.m. at Yankee Stadium. Maury McDermott and Tommy Byrne are the probable pitchers...
Abdullah was scheduled to make a fortnight's tour of Spain, including Andalusia in the south, where his ancestors once ruled. A Spanish man-of-war will bear him home. Thus shrewd Francisco Franco would finish an important knot in the net with which he is trying to snare support in the Arab world...
...were playing it. The Negro doctors who crowded the hotel were delegates to the annual convention of their own National Medical Association; the A.M.A. "observers" and their displays were there to persuade the N.M.A. to hitch itself as a tail to the A.M.A. kite. They failed to tie the knot...
...collared shirt, she is seized with a different idea: to walk off with Lancaster, diamonds or no. By the time she has had her way, the plot has encompassed a torture scene and the remarkable regeneration of the heroine. It has also been looped and twisted into a tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself, and 2) when it comes to acting, Miss Calvet, for all her diamantine Gallic glamour, is only a rhinestone in the rough...
...year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says married & divorced Ham Fisher, who takes Palooka as seriously as his most ardent fan: "They're going to be the ideally happy couple...