Word: knotted
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...next morning, in a 16-knot breeze, he stood bareheaded and coatless on the foredeck of Northampton and watched 48 ships pass in review. A 21-gun salute pounded out as the nine-mile double line of ships, led by the mighty nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise and the smaller Forrestal, churned through the frothy waters of the Gulf Stream off North Carolina's Outer Banks...
...four took positions next to the doomed man-two on each side-and yanked the rope hard in opposite directions. The rope snapped, and Resnick fell backward to the ground. "Let me show you how to do it," he muttered. He tied the rope together in a neat knot, doubled it, and handed it to one of the young men. "Do a good job." he said, dropping to his knees. "Don't let me suffer...
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...