Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro was visited a night later. Hooded men tied his hands and feet together; where his hands and feet came to a point behind his back they fastened another rope, took a turn around the rear axle of an automobile and started off at full speed down the road. The dragged body was torn beyond recognition. He had been accused of stealing turnip seed...
Just then the storm broke in full fury, filling the air with sand and dust so that we all but choked, even with scafrs bound around our faces. We halted long enough to pass a rope from one to the other of us so that we should not become separated; then for a while we proceeded in this fashion, but eventually the all grew so thick that we could not see a camel's length before us, and were forced to make the panting Meharis kneel. What a storm that was! The wind scoured our faces, hands, and any other...
...court could punish them for what it might call contempt of court, and this place is one of them. . . . "Mr. President, there are millions of his [Mr. Fall's] countrymen who would not object to seeing him adorned with a yellow necktie in the form of a grass rope. If an American soldier in charge of the oil reserves of the nation had done what he has done he would have been court-martialed and shot. "... I am going to close now with this appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Through tatter'd clothes small vices...
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...London, a zoo keeper, though used to seeing the ostriches swallow indigestibles, shuddered as he saw an end of rope vanishing down one bird's gullet. He dashed, caught the end, tugged for 15 minutes, retrieved five yards of rope, much of it already subjected to attempted digestion. The ostrich went away and sat down...