Word: pulley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starts painting base of pole. Man on pole erects pulley arrangement to enable him to get can of paint to top of pole without carrying...
...usual procedure in Communist Czechoslovakia: a strong, thin, silken noose, tied around the victim's neck, is then passed over a pulley at the top of a heavy stake. The victim is dropped from such a low elevation that his neck is not immediately broken. The executioner, who is standing near by, accomplishes this with his hands...
...sought other companions. His choices were strange. One was a short, baldheaded Lebanese journalist named Kareem Tabet, who is now the King's press counselor and confidant, has been described as Egypt's Harry Vaughan. Another of the King's favorites is a little Italian named Pulley Bey, a former palace barber and electrician whom (so the story goes) Farouk used to follow around when he was a child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court jester and general handy man, recruits poker partners and, occasionally, pretty dancing partners...
DIRT CHEAP: One pair Wellesley's finest handmade argyles, unworn, size 11, $6.50. See Bill Pulley, Phi Delta Theta. Classified advertisement in The Dartmouth, January...