Word: knot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch had promised an Indonesian federation, with sovereignty and equal partnership in a Dutch commonwealth, but they could not agree with the tough little republic on the necessary interim arrangements or on the final blueprint. Last month, in a final effort to break the knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from...
...morning last week Bad Boy leaned out the window of the second-story furnished room where he had holed up in Chester. A knot of men were standing below. Bad Boy began acting silly. He dropped a dime and called down, "Call the cops." One of the men picked up the dime, said: "This will get me a cup of coffee." Bad Boy got crazy mad. He reached back, got a .22 rifle, aimed it out the open window, killed one of the men below...
Four Aces. The 9,644-ton, 17-knot Excalibur, first of the American Export Lines' postwar "4 Aces," sailed from New York harbor on its maiden run to the Mediterranean, reopening the line's first-class travel after eight years. Excalibur has a swimming pool and air-conditioned cabins and carries 124 passengers. Her three sisterships, Exochorda, Exeter and Excambion (replacing vessels lost during the war) will go into service in the next two months...
...woman who stood, almost in tears, among the knot of spectators broke in: "It was our girl, Wilma...
...betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...