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...sense of design never falters. Nor the painstaking labor required of kimono makers. The most difficult technique was known as sō-hitta, or overall tie-dyeing. The word suggests rich hippies in blotchy homemade tank tops, but the Japanese craftsmen of the Edo period raised this system of knotting and immersion-dyeing to a most taxing pitch of subtlety. The furisode ("swinging sleeves" kimono), with its design of a lone pine tree running up the back, required hundreds of thousands of knots, each placed with fanatical precision so that the untied (and hence colored) portions of the fabric made...
After falling behind 4-2 in the nine-point tie-breaker, Lundy battled back to knot the score at 4-all. On the final point, Lundy lunged for a short backhand by Dutton and lobbed it just over Dutton's racquet for the set. "He hit a good service, and I hit a good return," Lundy commented. "After that, I just got lucky...
McCall fed the ball to Tennis, and the big attackman came through again, notching the last tally of his hat trick to knot the score...
...halftime neared, Tennis pumped in his second score of the day to knot the contest again, but Sollers fed Richard Thomas to assure Princeton a haltime lead...
...next five minutes, the Crimson failed to score the tying goal on two more power-play situations, but then with less than four minutes left, Tennis connected again with a pass from Hank Leopold to knot the score...