Word: knotted
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smooth, seamless hull (in contrast to the overlapping plate hull of a riveted ship) will boost her scheduled 16½knot speed...
...anchorman, around whose hip-belt the rope passed to a double-hitch... had to observe the opposing team. . . . He gave signals verbally or by facial signs and he had the all-important job of taking in the slack or letting out the rope, by skillful handling of the 'knot.' Anchormen sometimes had knee trouble and broken arches but not heart strain...
...fuel for the carburetors of Germany started up the Danube, muscle for the police of Rumania passed down the Rhone. Three motor torpedo boats of the swift (47-knot) type which Great Britain has built by the dozen for service in the Channel, the Mediterranean and perhaps the Baltic, were sold by Britain to Rumania this winter. When ice left the rivers of France, up the Seine right through Paris snored these swift and lethal little craft. Turning out of the Seine into the Yonne just below Montereau it is possible to navigate that stream to the Armanc,on, continue...
...since the fighting forebears of Brian Boroihme put to sea in currachs against Britain a millennium and a half ago has Ireland had a navy of any account. Until one day this winter, when the flag of Eire broke out at the stern of the trim, new, 50-knot torpedo boat, M1, independent Eire had no Navy at all. Even then, Eire got this ship from the British, the Government having ordered six such craft from British shipbuilders for coast-watching and general marine service...
Seen through blurred eyes, his reflected image was in a constant flux of alternate expansion and contraction. Do what he would, one lick of hair insisted on standing straight up in the air, and the knot in his tie would never assume the proper Mount Auburn Street air. Completely overwhelmed by this terrifying mechanical monster, he was incapable of simulating any form of non-chalance--the all-essential part of the successful Harvard...