Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the man resisted, he was beaten, gagged and bound with rope. But the Red officer politely asked the Takshing's master the cost of the rope, which belonged to his ship. "The People's Army and Navy," declaimed one of the Reds, "do not take a thread or a needle away from anybody." He promised to send $5 next day, then announced: "We are arresting special agents who sabotage our country's economy. The men we want are guilty of forging 50 billion J.M.P. [Red Chinese currency...
...with sticks and stones became so fierce that Bishop Ford's Communist guards fled in terror. Though knocked to the ground again & again, Bishop Ford did his best to walk calmly through the streets till the guards returned. In another town his neck was bound with a wet rope which almost choked him as it dried and shrank. Another rope was made to trail from under his gown like a tail. To humiliate them both, the Reds once forced him to undress before Sister Joan Marie. She caught a glimpse of Bishop Ford for the last time in February...
...Real Rope Stuff...
...President's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines. In the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas--"real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was elected to the American Alphine Club. A wrenched back ship plan, the CRIMSON decided that it would be appropriate to cease talking about the Age of Lowell and begin to realize the Age of Conant had arrived. Even abolition of the beer plan in Since 1760 men living in the Yard...
...years after Korea, how much of all this had we succeeded in voicing to bridge the gulf in sentiment between Europe and ourselves? Militarily, economically, and diplomatically, our practical politicians and soldiers had flung across the gulf a network of rope-bridges. But there is no comparable progress toward that meeting of minds on political aims and goals that is the true Grand Alliance...