Word: knotting
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...knot begins to form in my stomach exactly at 8 a.m., when I step into the small Fokker F-28 jet that will take me and 50 other passengers from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad. I know what lies ahead: an hour's uneventful flying over unchanging desert, followed by the world's scariest landing--a steep, corkscrewing plunge into what used to be Saddam Hussein International Airport. Then an eight-mile drive into the city along what's known as the Highway of Death. I've made this trip more than 20 times since Royal Jordanian's civilian flights started...
...cash bar and getting glittery-eyed. The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow warms up the crowd, reading his cartoons aloud as they are projected on giant screens behind him. It doesn?t seem that vital to pay attention, but halfway through the act, a Yearly Kos volunteer stops by the conversational knot I?m in and shushes us. It?s the first sign of militancy and while they may not be reaching for the bayonets, the audience stomps and hoots when Moulitsas takes the stage. He smiles benignly and begins: ?My name is Markos and I run a site called Daily...
...concentration of activity was incredible; two full codes going on in the same smallish room. The medical people had squeezed in; there was a knot of them around each patient, hands on chins or EKG strips. We were working away but could only get their pressures up a little. They were both doing well lung-wise. The old man was completely out and intubated now; the nurse was breathing and reacted weakly when needles were inserted ,but that's all. There was a moment of stability and everyone seemed to look up at everyone else - the surgeons looked...
...Massachusetts couples - 36 of whom have married - research scientists with the Wellesley Centers for Women found that, while all the study participants enthusiastically supported the change in the law, many expressed caution about their own personal decision on whether to marry. They wanted to tie the knot for the "right" reasons, not to "make a political statement or be part of history...
...entryway-mates met him and said, “You’re the dude that’s married.” “It’s pretty funny that people bought it,” said Catlin, who has never tied a knot. When Noelle Bassi ’06 put down “married” to indicate her relationship status with her boyfriend of five years, she received a number of congratulatory messages from high school friends. Her friends told her that they “always knew” she would...