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...ALVAN KNOT...
Moments before the setback in the fence-off. Tatrallyay had defeated the same Varraljay, 5-4, in the last bout of the final round to send the title competition into a fence-off. In that bout Tatrallyay had rallied to knot the score, 4-4, with three seconds left in regulation time. At this point a tie would have done Tatrallyay no good. By international rules under which the Canadian Nationals were run, a tie is recorded as a double loss...
There are other familiar examples of the nonverbal remedial ritual. To hide her embarrassment at having to go to the bathroom, a girl at a party sometimes uses broad swimming motions to cut her way through a knot of guests obstructing her route. In Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, out "hunting" with a friend, is startled by something innocuous and jumps involuntarily. To show he really isn't frightened he jumps up and down several more times in "an exercising sort...
...Gang" comedy style, which is considerably more funky and less tailored than the uptown interpretation. And last week the women's page of London's Daily Mirror ran a feature instructing women in a new talent they will need: the art of tying a four-in-hand knot...
Barrow in winter is mainly a scattered group of frame houses covered by layers of frost. Much of the time "20-20" weather prevails-20°-below-zero temperature and a bone-rattling 20-knot wind-making the chill factor 70° below zero. During winter in Barrow one does not walk more than 1,000 ft. before taking cover. To go farther would invite painful frostbite...