Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This year the route for 120 feet was through the flank and then for a rope's length [80 ft.] through an ice couloir. After that one stood on a wide rib leading in a few minutes, rather easily, to the terrace of Camp Eight...
...chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...
...They shot him as he ran. ¶Three days later at Hayneville, Ala., Lynching No. 5 took place. A Negro boy was said to have frightened an 11-year-old white girl. A crowd took him out of town, tied him to a tree with a rope and dog chain, shot him 32 times, twice for every year he had lived...
...down to their accustomed drinking places and break the thin ice at the edge to get a drink-occasionally one will get beyond the sure footing of the bank to a very smooth place where his sharp hoofs get no purchase. Then the boys have to get a rope to help him out, or scatter straw or leaves so he can help himself. It has happened that his struggles have carried him further and further from land; thoroughly exhausted by his labors, he is found frozen to death...
...playing alone in the shallow water near Prospect Park above the Falls. Fascinated tourists watched until a patrolman enticed the dog to shore, tethered him away from danger. The dog broke the rope, jumped into the cool river. The rapids caught him, carried him over the edge. He fell 165 ft., happened to land in a deep, quiet pool. One John Cavanaugh, candy concessionaire, leaped across the shore rocks, got the amazed dog to safety...