Word: knottiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue has been raised," cried the speaker. "The country is looking at what we do in the next half-hour." The issue-whether Communists should be allowed to teach-was far & away the nation's knottiest academic problem. In Boston last week at its annual convention, the powerful National Education Association (825,000 state and national members) took its stand...
Porter's life is probably one of the knottiest problems that ever tied up a Hollywood story conference. In 1946 Warner Bros, made a film "biography" of Porter called Night and Day (out of which Porter got nothing he could recognize except some of his best songs and $300,000). After hopefully combing through the Porter files, one of the writers assigned to work on the script complained: "There's no struggle-all along the line...
...Negotiations. One of the knottiest ecclesiastical problems to be ironed out: the Anglican belief that the ministry must be in the line of "apostolic succession," as against the Congregationalist concept of the "ministry of all believers." This problem was eventually solved by the creation of a 30-year period, during which the Anglicans will recognize the existing ministries, of the other denominations (and agree to such un-Anglican nomenclature as moderator, presbyter and elder), with the understanding that no minister ordained before the union can be shifted to any church without the consent of the congregation. When the 30 years...
...compromise between entirely House or Class election, the knottiest issue in Council approval, was finally settled with eight representatives from the Houses and seven from the Classes...
...great struggle over unification of the armed services, which had the Navy pot-shotting at the Army (and vice versa) for over a year, seemed close to a more or less friendly settlement. The Army & Navy themselves had settled some disputed points, the President had resolved three of the knottiest: he had ruled in favor of a single defense department, three coequal branches, and a Marine Corps under the Navy (TIME, June 24). The one issue on which the Navy had continued to buck its Commander in Chief was his order that all land-based aviation (including anti-submarine patrol...