Word: knot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that has followed from it, suggests again the ingenuity with which some men and women have approached the seemingly insoluble problem, the historical impossibility. Old impregnable conundrums usually fall to the simplest, most elegant assaults. Alexander's sword at one stroke solved all the mystification of the Gordian knot. Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants-military genius riding through the snow upon absurdity. Gandhi defeated the British raj with a contradiction: nonviolent resistance. In 1955 a weary black woman in Montgomery. Ala., Rosa Parks, refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man; at that instant...
Winthrop quickly returned from "Burn City" to knot the hard fought affair. 'Throp quarterback Brian Towne exhibited the form that made him an AllState New Hampshire gridder when he engineered a 65-yard, churn-it-out touchdown drive. Towne capped the drive with a 12-yard paydirt strike to sophomore standout Rob Inches...
Ahead of us a fine, 14-knot southwesterly breeze ruffles a quicksilver sea. In the hazy sunlight the horizon line is a blur of radiant mist. Through it, as the ferryboat Provincetown lumbers closer to the starting line, we suddenly make out the tall, spectral shapes of Courageous and Australia, coursing around beyond the committee boat. Seeing them for the first time is surprising, like getting an unexpected glimpse of a pair of large white unicorns playing in a formal garden...
...Hampshire seeks temporary services of a political scientist (Nobel Peace Prize minimum requirement), fiscal troubleshooter (Is New York City too easy for you?) or expert magician (Have you ever levitated Mount Rush-more?) to untie a Gordian knot. The problem: it has no budget. Since midnight June 30, the state has had no legal authority to spend a dime; there is no payroll; the government is now all volunteer...
...instrumental section; later Moss takes another while Paxton disappears to change from a red T-shirt into a yellow one. The concert ends as Paxton, drawing a deep breath, exchanges a look with Moss that says, "Okay, now just one more." He then springs into a strenuous, exhilarating knot of dancing that inspires the small audience to respond with lengthy applause...