Make a knot some distance down it.Then insert any colored bead into it.Then again make a stiff knot.
Much of the destruction can be accounted for by the stiff, 20-knot-plus onshore easterlies that thrashed the Florida shoreline during the race's initial stages, turning the launching and landing of the 20-foot cats through heavy surf into tests of survival.
Glass noticed his shoes: impossibly long and narrow patent-leather sheaths, the laces knotted into stiff and perfectly formed figure eights.
We'll never know how his last plate, "Head of Jeremy King," might have turned out, though it looks promising: a long, craggy face that seems to sit right on the knot of a stiff necktie.
By fitting, we find an exponent of −0.56 ± 0.02, close to −0.50 ± 0.01: indeed, Nknot κmin) ∼ κmin because the polymer is stiff at the scale of the knot.
All of these had asymmetrical knotting on cotton warps, with stiff, heavy woollen wefts pulled straight and silk or cotton wefts between, left relatively slack.
Out in the Atlantic, the remains of Hurricane Alberto were conspiring with a strong mid-ocean high-pressure system to pump out more stiff southerlies in the 20- to 35-knot range.
Grinning, Draper dropped the hull back onto the water, and the catamaran quickly accelerated back to 20 knots, the wing whistling slightly and the stiff, hollow hulls banging like enormous drums.
But Zhou, stiff and smart in a blue shirt and black trousers, is knotted up: arms folded, eyes glazed.
