Word: knot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson jumped to a quick 8-4 lead on three baskets by Pat Horne, who led the team in scoring with 12 points. But after the Owls fought back to knot the score, 10-10. The bottom suddenly fell out for Harvard...
High winds, caused an unusually large number of mechanical breakdowns--Brian Keane capsized once as a result--and 40-50 knot breezes forced the cancellation of Sunday's races...
...knot of rowers finished with their races for the day sat on the shore by Weeks Bridge, watching and cheering for their favorites as boats in other races slipped past...
Though the President has been understandably reluctant to invoke precedents, one or two might be enlightening. One president in the 1960s tried to raise defense spending without increasing taxes at the same time, and the result--as Republicans have joyously pointed out for at least a decade--was a knot of inflation that paralysed the nation. The order of magnitude of the Lyndon B. Johnson precedent seems almost trivial by comparison. And Reagan might well remember the inflationary jolt of the early 1970s that came when the Arab states increased their oil prices. Under Reagan, energy has magically disappeared...
...stocky man in the light beige suit was talking about the weather. He had tried to take a walk, but the drizzle and the knot of well-wishers outside had scared him back into the hotel. Instead of returning to Chambre 15, the room he has occupied during his weekly visits to his parliamentary district for the past 35 years, he had wandered into a small thicket of journalists in the hotel dining room who were waiting for the early projections from sample precincts. In contrast to his usual aloof attitude toward reporters, François Mitterrand seemed to want...