Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blood Knot, by Atholl Fugard, links two South African half-brothers in a fierce, funny, tender, scalding love-hate relationship. Though both are sons of the same dark-skinned mother, one brother is white and the other is dark...
...game. A quick jump shot by Sedlacek and a free throw by McClung gave Harvard a four-point edge. But the Crimson missed two opportunities to increase it, and Pawlak, getting hot while the rest of his team was cold, popped in seven points in three minutes to knot the game...
Jessup's book is short, but all his characters seem clearly drawn. Or, more accurately, we know them all--probably because they all appeared in The Gunfight at Dry Gulch on the late show the other night. Lancey is The Fastest Gun in the West. The knot of poker dilettantes who watch The Game are the drunks who scamper out the door of the Golden Horseshoe Saloon before the showdown gunfight...
...Crimson kept to a ten-bout lead in the beginning of the match, but nervousness Quakers came back to knot the score...
...Russian explanation was transparently phony. Obviously the MIGs knew from listening in that the unarmed plane was having radio trouble. In fact, the T-39 probably had a complete electrical breakdown that knocked out its navigational equipment as well as the radios. This, and a 45-knot wind from the west, would account for the trespass. But that did not explain why the Russian fighters disregarded time-honored rules for handling airspace violations. Countless such violations occur in the crowded, nervous skies over the border between West and East Germany. Normally the trespasser-U.S. or Russian-is forced...