Word: knots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yelled obscenities, the rest of the pack twirled waist chains menacingly to discourage interference. Three of Angels Camp's four bars shut down; merchants decided to close early. Then came action. Flashing down the Main Street hill with muffler throbbing, a long-haired youngster wheeled artfully through a knot of idlers, snatched a can of beer on the fly. Hundreds of daredevils kicked their starters, ready to meet his challenge...
...tired. He likes his present job as Navy coach too much to quit. "I never know my youngsters until they come down to the boathouse to try out for the crew," he told his old logging pals. "And some of them prove to have no more rhythm than a knot in an outhouse door. But if you like to work with young men, as I do, you can't help but want to stay with them...
...Sail When Ready." The Joint Chiefs of Staff needed no further notice to send the Sixth Fleet hurrying eastward from its peaceful anchorages in the Western Mediterranean. Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, issued the curt order: "Sail when ready." The Sixth Fleet sailed under the straight-faced explanation that it was merely returning to its normal theater of operations...
...executive and as an engineer. He has learned in the wind tunnel of the America of the '30s, '40s and '50s the best concepts and best context of his community. "Action," "dynamic" and "capability" are among his favorite words, and all three have come to a knot in Missileman Schriever at a critical point in time. "We simply must maintain the deterrent capability," he repeats insistently. "It's our main objective in life...
...Pasadena department store in an effort to promote sales of yarn. A customer suggested that he try to make a Persian rug. With no instruction, he assembled a loom from four sticks and a quantity of seine twine. A rug-maker showed him how to tie a Persian knot and Ridd began his project...