Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misunderstanding between India and the West, his attempt has been a failure; and all that he has done in Burma has been to embarrass his hosts to the point of stupefaction. Mr. Khrushchev had better watch out when he gets back to Moscow, for he has spun enough rope on this excursion to hang a dozen men of his girth...
...student who burst into his office seemed so distraught that Professor James A. Martin Jr. of Amherst College's department of religion has never forgotten him. "Sir," said the student that day two years ago, "I am at the end of my rope. I have now lost my faith in science, and I gave up religion long ago! What am I to do?" The student, in a sense, was asking the question on behalf of a whole generation that has found an urgent desire to believe. Today on campuses across...
...handkerchief with a lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped her enormous Spanish shawl around Woodward, and the two rumbaed together underneath. Ann fumed up to them, ripped off the shawl, tore Mme. Sainte's dress, slapped her face, slapped Bill, finally had to be forcibly restrained...
...featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease for the widespread terror of being accidentally buried alive. In such devices the victim was provided with a bell rope a speaking tube, an air vent or even a ladder...
Most will agree with Camus that the disappearance of God from the calculations of the modern intellectual has put a rope of despair round his neck. And they may respect Camus' astonishingly simple faith that things will be more comfortable if it is agreed to call despair "lack of hope," and the rope a cravat...