Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last session's Economy Act authorized the President to reorganize, consolidate and abolish executive agencies to eliminate duplication and save money. To such a large grant of power, Congress tied an equally large rope: The President must submit to Congress his reorganization plan, which would become effective only if the House and Senate took no positive action against it within 60 days. Last week the President submitted his plan, to which the first Congressional reaction was uncertainty tinged with hostility. But for once Congressional inertia was on the President's side. No action would mean favorable action...
...Corragio!" cried the Captain and over the side went Gennaro Amatruda, a rope round his waist, a hammer in his belt, a monkey rope with a wooden plug and a rope mat in his hand. Seventy feet down he worked, sometimes swinging high in the air, sometimes soused deep in the creamy waves. Five other men were on shorter ladders trying to keep him from being dashed against the side of the ship. After a breathless, drenching hour, the monkey rope was passed through the hole, the plug hammered home. On the inside Staff Captain Giorgio Cavallini and the chief...
...cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content itself with a single exhibition of its star but must with unparalleled magnanimity, offer him to the audience twice, once as T.K. Blair, the nominee for the presidency of the land, and again...
...last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding to make the line fast. It took three hours to get all hands ashore. Some of the crew's 15 Solomon Islanders could not swim, had to be helped along the line, hand over hand. Once the rope broke, plunged a man into the water. Captain Stanton dived after him grappled, quieted the fellow with a blow, dragged him ashore. At last all were reported saved. It had been thought that Missionary R. D. E. Voil was lost, but Anglicans breathed easier to learn he had disembarked before...
...fortress-like metal refinery in Brooklyn, the big steel trucking door was being closed one day last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished...