Word: knotted
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...Terry in a knot...
Aloft in Warspite's eccentrically huge superstructure, a little knot of men was tense. They felt not just the tightness that comes over all sailors at sea after dark-but now the exhilaration of men about to give battle...
Said the Daily News: "One orthodox Red tactic is to hit at a large community's key points - transportation, power plants, water works and the like - in the hope of paralyzing the place and creating chaos, so that a well-organized knot of Reds can then step in and take over...
...knot of the idle curious pressed around the ropes. Inside the shut-off area -a stretch of bomb-racked street back of Victoria Station, London-grotesque figures moved about: men dressed like sailors out in some supernatural storm, in great shiny capes, voluminous shiny trousers, boots, gloves, masks, helmets...
...night they battled the fire and by morning brought it under control. A jury steering gear was rigged and the main engines urged to nine-knot speed. For 700 miles 26-year-old Second Officer Arthur Hawkins guided her eastward, by the moon and stars and a page torn from an old school atlas. Greaser Joe Boyle, his ribs broken, was propped on a stool in the engine room to check the gauges. But after two days he collapsed, died overnight in his bunk...