Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once two of us were perched on a ledge near the top of a huge factory chimney doing some cement work. Suddenly my partner lurched backwards and hurtled through space to die 200 feet below. He carried the guide rope with him, leaving me stranded...
...That was a time for iron nerves, I can tell you. With my rope gone, the slightest movement would have thrown me off my balance. After three hours they were able to lower another rope from the chimney top and take me off that ledge. I wouldn't be here now if I'd become jittery when the other fellow fell...
...like the jolly skiing party. The girl especially was nice. One night lonely Rudolf Wormys invited the skiers to join him in a nightcap. Once inside his room, the two Nazi sportsmen pitched into the radio expert, tried to get him down and tie him up with a rope...
...President's action: no lover of the publishers, he has been increasingly vexed by their mounting criticisms of the New Deal. Rather than give them the slightest justification for bolting NRA. he was leaning over backward to preserve the letter of the Code, thus paying out enough rope for the publishers to hang themselves. The White House apparently expected the Newspaper Industrial Board to deal quickly and fairly with the Jennings case or else hold its peace if the Government takes a hand...
...Brooklyn, as he was being led into a slaughter depot, Julius, oldtime brewery horse, snapped his rope halter and dashed in front of a truck to his death. "Suicide," said the magistrate. "Julius was high strung,'' said Owner Andrew Smith...