Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
...found in the pub cellar the sort of thing that used to occur on the nearby stage half a century ago. Some villain had struck down a middleaged, grey-haired man, rolled him up in curtains, then in linoleum, finally in carpets and tied the big bundle with a rope. When Sir Bernard Spilsbury arrived the usual London headlines suggested that not even this murder trail could be too cold for his keen, Sherlocking nose. Sniffed he: "I should say this man was killed about 1885 and was at that time about 55 years old. There are certain peculiar marks...
...assisted at some 65 hangings (he does not recall the exact number), has never sprung a trap. Years ago, the revolting sight of a public strangulation as a result of an incorrectly tied noose led Mr. Hanna on a later occasion to offer his knowledge of rope-tying to the White County sheriff. He has since performed the same service elsewhere in Illinois, in Kentucky and, I believe, in other States, has never accepted payment, not even expense money. He asks for and usually receives the weapon with which the crime (when murder) was committed. The arsenal in his home...
...official organ, Osservatore Romano, expressing "pained disgust" at the fact that Germans who had "spent a few days in the residence of a sovereign with whom the Reich is in relations of friendship, should be punished as if they had committed a sin. . . . Christ also received a rope when He was arrested, questioned, attacked and mocked because He was accused of having indulged in politics after a pilgrimage of love and redemption...
Swish! The body fell, jerked the rope taut. Then it spun a little, the toes of De Boe's shiny shoes poised a few inches above a puddle of water in the pit beneath the gallows...