Word: knot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KNOT-SHIP design has been ordered from Grumman Aircraft by the Maritime Administration. The 100-ft. test craft, weighing between 50 and 100 tons, will use hydrofoils, completely submerged winglike structures that raise the vessel's hull from the water, cut down resistance...
...Fift . . . uh, no, here," Lucius returned counting out the money for the shine. Rallying slowly, he tied a double knot in his laces and trundled with relief to the stacks...
...predawn darkness at New York's Idlewild Airport, a mustached, parrot-nosed man in a snap-brim hat and grey overcoat alighted from a chartered Scandinavian Airlines DC-7C, was soon swept into a knot of welcomers and greeted in a torrent of Russian. The visitor: Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, Khrushchev's top economic adviser and political crony...
...slight, auburn-haired Olga Kupczyk, 30, recently of Vancouver, Canada. After Mother Duncan was sent home, Frank and Olga dated. In May Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home to mother...
...transportation and communication, applying air power from offshore carriers. In keeping with its arguments, the Navy is pushing, despite the budget hold-down, for a $375 million dreamboat: a second atomic-powered carrier to join the Enterprise, now abuilding. So taken is Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke with the atomic carrier's virtues-speed, range and freedom from refueling problems, except for aircraft fuel-that, to get another one, he is even willing to see a slowdown in procurement of atomic-missile subs...