Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he became an able and aggressive labor leader, Cipriano Reyes was a circus tight-rope walker, packinghouse worker and longshoreman. An early Peronista, he helped the president to power, later he broke with Perón. Through his leadership of the small but active Laborista party he turned to fighting Peronista control of labor. From Buenos Aires last week leaked an account of how a man with such savvy and background could be sucked into a futile conspiracy: Perón's police had mousetrapped...
...good historical drama whose star, Robert Mitchum, was recently arrested in a marijuana scandal. The critics were lukewarm to Good Sam, but it flourished, regardless. The Babe Ruth Story was thoroughly panned, but it profited from the wide public interest in Ruth's death. Sorry, Wrong Number and Rope, greeted with critics' cheers, rated ninth and eleventh...
...Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for fun, with John Ball, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
...rally's aftermath, Sergeant Toomey and three other members of the University gendarmerie had their hands full in providing police protection for a life-sized dummy of a Dartmouth gridder, which had overlooked the proceedings from the end of a rope attached to a tree near the Blockhouse...
After unsuccessful attempts by Shirley Curtis '51 to stage a mock escape by fire rope and window steps, Marilyn Grube '51 accomplished the three-story descent in a timed two minutes and 55 seconds. Observers calculated the time needed by two girls under ordinary conditions as nine minutes...