Word: knots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rehearsal was over; the guest conductor stepped down from the podium. Said Maestro Toscanini, who had been sitting quietly in a back seat scrutinizing the score: "Now! That man really knows how to play that music ... I play it like a pig!" The little knot of courtiers around Toscanini hastened to assure him that it wasn't so. The old man turned on them with one of his sudden, unpredictable thunderclaps: "Oh, so you think I don't know music?" As he marched off he sputtered: "The trouble with all of you is-you have all been poisoned...
...knot Lurline, also a troopship during the war, had been stripped and rebuilt from the hull up. Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates had designed lanai (porch) suites with private sundecks and air-conditioned cabins that were combination living and bedrooms. First-class fare: $150, up to $850 for the lanai suites...
Radcliffe's Student Government showed the way to Gordian knot-slicing Saturday when it ended in a few words the clouds of controversy that had been hanging over the results of its most recent vote. Instead of wasting time with legalistic arguments, the Student Government officers made certain that every possible doubt would be cleared up by calling for a second vote on all three of the issues in question...
...blustery storm out of the South bothered Harry Truman, he gave no outward sign of it. But inwardly he felt some sinking sensations last week. They came from another storm: a 40-knot northeast wind that whipped up ten-foot waves and tossed, the presidential yacht Williamsburg around like a cockleshell under a bathtub faucet...
...Funsters were hot whom it counted as they overcame a 22 to 10 first quarter deficit to knot the score at 26-all at half-time and forge ahead in the third stanza. In the other scheduled contest, Eliot defeated Leverett, winding up on top of a 43 to 32 count...