Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filled with expressions of fear that events were outracing the statesmen, threatening to tumble out of control. Khrushchev literally begged Kennedy to keep things under control, promised he would do the same. He compared his struggle with Kennedy to two men pulling on a rope with a knot in the middle. The harder we pull, wrote Nikita. the tighter the knot gets...
...talked briefly about his recent visit to Russia and about conversations he had with Khrushchev, but did not say anything about Russian poetry. He delved briefly into politics, defining a liberal as a person "who would rather fuss with the Gordian knot than...
Having been soundly trounced by 3 min. 46 sec. in the first race, the Aussies came out for the second match in the kind of day to gladden any Sydney sailor's heart. The balmy 15-knot breeze had be come a tearing, 25-knot northwest wind; heavy swells rolled across the green Atlantic, and off to the horizon spray-laden whitecaps filled the scene. It was Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful...
...first race was, predictably, a win for Weatherly by a margin that discouraged the Aussie challengers. In 15-20 knot winds off Newport the sleek American sloop romped to a 3:46 victory...
...reset, her deck drilled and patched, her vast sails recut. When Gretel slipped off the ways, she still had to test her sheets, still had to learn if the new rigging would let her steer easier in fresh breezes and add a crucial fraction of a knot to her speed...