Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...target, especially on a moonlight night. Keep close to the shore. Keep moving or you will bog down." Not everyone heard him; there was too much confusion. Some of the boots tried to joke. One yelled: "Hey, something just swam between my legs!" Another found a short piece of rope and waved it, shouting: "Watch the snake! Watch the snake...
...Gamely, the Empire News carried on with the series, though "deleting . . . those passages which seem to arise from knowledge gained by Mr. Pierrepoint in the course of his official duties." That left Pierrepoint little of the noose fit to print. This week Pierrepoint reached the end of his rope. Announced the Empire News: "In view of the difficulties ... it has been decided to cancel the series...
...made himself a wife out of old canvas and straw, fully intending (he assured Captain Overton) "to go straight with her." Alas, "just for a bit of variety," Bunt had then made himself a girl friend named Lola, who had long hair of combed ship's rope. When quarreling broke out between the two women, said Sergeant Bunt, he took Lola's side, killed off his wife and buried her (he showed Overton the grave, with flowers...
While the rest of the tourists enjoyed the elegance and peeked around hopefully for a glimpse of the tenants, Mrs. Hilda Marie Marks leaned over a velvet guide rope in the chandeliered Red Room, dropped the newspaper on a chair and tossed a lighted box of matches on it. Moments later a guard saw the flame crackle up and snuffed it: there was no damage, no fire alarm, no report to the President at work in his office a hundred yards away. There was also, when the guard had the fire out and looked around to see who caused...
...giant liner foundering in mid-Atlantic, to give the feeling of the surging thousands with scarcely a hundred actors. To do this, he used 40 sets jammed into NBC's Brooklyn studio, making masterful use of his six cameras to combine action and symbolism; e.g., a rope spinning over a bitt was enough to suggest the lowering of a lifeboat. Seven sets-decks, staterooms, etc.-were built in duplicate, one set being shown "dry" for early scenes, the second set built to hold three feet of water for the sinking scenes...