Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hundreds of fishing vessels and small Chinese houseboats were splintered against the sea wall and the rocky coast. Screaming coolies were catapulted into the seething water, many to be drowned, few to be saved by a life line of rope-tethered police and customs officers who strove spunkily, but hopelessly, against the storm...
...Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and she was rescued, she built the $2,000,000 Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband in 1909, her Newport mansion, "Miramar," her huge annual tennis-week balls...
...friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell...
...into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then he returned and repeated the crime with the others. Then he ravished the three bodies. Finally in a fit of remorse he took off the girls' shoes, ranged them neatly side by side and prayed over them. "What...
...place for a merciful jailer was La Rotunda, which specialized in El Benemerito's two favorite brands of torture: the tortol, a rope knotted and tightened about the victim's forehead until his skull cracked; the cepo, in which a rifle, tied under his knees with a rope looped around his neck, was jumped on until the vertebrae parted...