Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the crowned knot of fire...
...expert acting crew unties Knot's knots, with 83-year-old Ethel Grimes in gruff comic command as the family doctor, and James Donald convincingly torn between love, money, and the family crest. Murder will out, of course, and it does with an explosively surprising last-curtain bang-of laughter...
...knot puff of wind hit the boat as Ford was attempting to jibe around the first leeward marker in the fourth race, and the sail ended up wrapped around the spreaders. As Ford lost precious moments clearing the Crimson sails, the Coast Guard and BU rounded the mark and started upwind with about a 50 yard lead...
...coast without changing direction. The few that are deflected have been so easy to spot as they fly along the beach that human bird watchers erroneously decided that coastline following was standard bird procedure. The Truro radar sometimes showed conspicuous angels moving out to sea at a 40-knot speed. These proved to be dense flocks of sandpipers, plovers, and other shore birds starting nonstop flights to the West Indies or South America...
...identity, the private poked his head inside the car, ostensibly looking for weapons. Then he ordered the chauffeur to open the trunk compartment. White with anger, Hammarskjold snapped: "You are probably unaware of the fact that I have diplomatic immunity." Replied the paratrooper: "I have my orders." While a knot of French soldiers grinned their amusement, a paratroop lieutenant asked lazily: "Who is Hammarskjold, anyway...