Word: rope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the rope provided by the hotel as a fire escape, the rope broke...
...turn. Before the curtain went up on the third act of Napoli, the ballet master pointed out our places. We stood just behind a row of ballerinas draped along the edge of the stage. One of the group twirled the end of a rope near a ballerina who was still stationing herself. In a slightly hurt voice and in uncertain English she pouted "a-a. .pl-eese." Four of us practiced pulling a cart decorated with flowers across the stage. This was to be the finale. "Now just relax ourselves," said the ballet master...
...Lenin once said of them: "We shall support the Social Democrats like a rope supports a hanging...
...make matters worse, she was nudged out of first place by Hungary's Ibodya Czak in a tie-breaking jump-off at 5 ft. 3! in. Dotty came home to her mother's little house in Mitcham and leaped through her days, kicking at high bannisters, skipping rope and playing netball, a British version of basketball. She accumulated more medals and trophies than a small-town pawnbroker. In 1939 she set a world's record: 5 ft. 5¾ in. Her awkward scissors style grew so popular that it had female jumpers getting off on the wrong...
...murder in 1628 when an officer arresting him (for refusing to attend Church of England services) fell down, broke his leg and died of gangrene. "He spent some time in prayer at the foot of the scaffold and then, seeing that the hangman was fumbling over fixing the rope, called up to him, 'Tom, I think I must come up and help thee...