Word: knots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court has slashed through the Gordian knot of legal complications entangling the election of Georgia's next governor by ruling that the state legislature can choose between Democrat Lester G. Maddox and Republican Howard H. (Bo) Callaway. The deadlock, created when neither candidate gained an absolute majority in the general election, must be broken. But the way in which the Court has decided to settle the contest means that the candidate with fewer votes may emerge the winner, a result hardly consistent with some of the Court's other recent rulings...
...Golden Knights controlled the second period with their big fast forwards, mounting drive after drive. Diercks held them off until 10:39 when Jerry Emond banged in a rebound on his second try from the green crease to knot the score...
...group, a convocation, or a knot...
Cutting the Knot. Boyd faces a formidable task. He will attempt to unscramble the world's biggest, most bitterly competitive transportation complex, a Gordian knot of railroads (214,650 miles), airline routes (280,696 miles), and highways (3,600,000 miles). To cut the knot, Boyd's department aims to coordinate the responsibilities of 31 federal agencies. With 91,000 employees and a $5.5 billion budget, he will run the Government's fifth-largest department...
...Navy." Its officers and men are recognizable from afar by their luxuriant beards and deep suntans, and the approach of their elderly craft can be detected by the clatter of chipping hammers pecking away at rusty decks. The ships themselves have high, unsheered bows and an ungainly 12-knot waddle, while the most advanced piece of electronic gear aboard any of them is a popcorn machine. Yet Inshore Fire Support Division 93, as McCoy's Navy is known officially, is one of the most valuable units in the South China Sea. It serves as the seagoing artillery...