Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, the male member of team No. 7 rushed at Milton D. Crandall, crying with rage and threatening him with fists. He had been insulted, he cried, and would go across the river. The crowd cheered him on, an angry knot of persons gathered on the dance floor, a call for police reserves was issued, while Mr. Crandall, dodging away from the enraged dancer, was booed, hissed and subjected to fruit-throwing. Five minutes later, it was announced that an injunction had been secured which would permit the marathon to continue 22 hours longer. Couple No. 7, despite their unruly...
Trailing at the short end of a 3 to 1 score in the sixth inning, Harvard rallied to knot the count when singles by J. P. Chase '28, W. W. Lord '28, and John Prior '29, an error, and a sacrifice netted a pair of tallies. Pennsylvania came back in the next frame, however, assuming a two run lead on a single by Allen Walker, after F. B. Cutts '28 had filled the bases with three walks. Two more Red and Blue players crossed the plate in the eighth, giving their team a safe margin of victory...
...Lorimer listened, hand cupped to ear. Members jumped up to remonstrate with Mr. Schafer. Mr. Sproul of Illinois demanded that Mr. Schafer's words be stricken from the record. Mr. Schafer refused. A knot of members surrounded Mr. Schafer while his remarks were being transcribed by the clerk. Finally "to save time" Mr. Schafer withdrew what he had said...
Poles under sentence to hang were worried. They know that a noose smartly drawn up (with knot close under one ear of the condemned) will bring instant, pain less death, by snapping the neck. Such have been the nooses of experienced Hangman Maciejewski, a onetime medical student. On the other hand, a loose and slovenly noose brings slow strangulation, lingering agony...
...erect, military figure made haste to Malacanan Palace, official residence of the Governors General. A knot of small, smart, brown-skinned men-Filipino politicians-were waiting to shake hands. Col. Stimson also greeted some other small, smart, brown-skinned men who were to be his servants. "Oh, yes," he said, as a chef came forward. "Yes, I know Ming. How are you, Ming...