Word: knots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head-on crash, No. 4's steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to an Imperial Oil Co. storage depot where 80 drums of oil took fire. Rescuers saved as many passengers as they could before the flames drove them away...
Carol of Rumania and his red-haired Madga Lupescu, who went through a provisional marriage ceremony last July when Magda appeared to be dying, decided to make it good & legal this week or maybe next. In Rio de Janeiro there would be a sort of Double Carrick B. knot: the first twist civil, the second Greek Orthodox...
Wags forecast that, in coming weeks, CBS would be there when Hannibal crosses the Alps, Socrates dies, and Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian knot. Cracked one CBStaffer: "The series need end only with the crack of doom-recorded and transcribed by CBS, of course...
Warden W. G. Worthy strode toward the knot of convicts, gun in hand. There was a single report from his .38-cal. revolver, then the roar of four shotguns in the hands of prison guards. Convicts scattered frantically, flopping to the ground, diving under the buildings for cover. One made the barbed-wire-topped fence before a cursing guard, kicking loose a jam in his weapon, blasted him down with a load of buckshot...
...Dodd raised his hands for silence. Said Norris: "I want to present these questions." By this time, nobody on the rostrum could be heard. From the clerical congregation came an angry hubbub interspersed with cries of "Throw him out!" and around Norris gathered a menacing knot of young minister veterans. Eventually four policemen showed up and explained that they had been summoned to quell a riot. By that time the uproar had quieted and Louie Newton continued his report...