Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grislier fate awaited three Hungarians. Charged with plotting a rightist coup against the coalition government, they were sentenced to a hanging a la Hongroise. In this procedure, the condemned man stands on a stool before a high post topped by a hook. A thin rope is put about the victim's neck and pulled taut about the hook. Then the stool is kicked from under the victim. His neck is not broken by the drop. As a measure of mercy, the executioner sharply twists the victim's head while a couple of assistants pull his legs down...
...remain a meet point. The lack of easily accessible material to choose from stands as one objection, and many will claim that such a method will create an even more spotty knowledge and understanding than would a survey course. President Conant himself warns that he "may be peddling a rope of sand...
...what goes on right under the roof that makes this the most thrilling circus in years. There is black-haired Rose Gould who, roped by her ankles to two men hanging by their heels, plunges from a great height to within a foot of the tanbark. There are the Idalys, he riding-upside down-a monocycle suspended from the roof, while she hangs from his teeth and does acrobatics. And there is Harold Alzana, who climbs up a half-vertical taut wire to reach the high wire, and then (blithely scorning a net) skips rope upon...
...that Henry's latest nightmares were badly in need of airconditioning. Only seven pictures were sold. Among those who did not consider the exhibition very good: Henry Miller. "When I paint I have a lot of fun," he explained, "but I feel I'm on a tight rope. I'm jittery. Sometimes when I start out vaguely to do a landscape I end up with a fish. I worried about this until other painters said they do the same thing...
...incredible activity. He read aloud to Homer, sometimes sketched buildings "all in red" which Homer had seen in visions, saved tons & tons of newspapers for Homer to read when he regained his sight. After midnight, Langley roamed the city, pulling a cardboard box on the end of a long rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked all the way to Brooklyn to get a loaf of stale bread. On rare occasions he darted into a liquor store, after first peering carefully through the door, and bought a pint of whiskey...