Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driver Dennis Walsh made a U-turn, parked the armored truck by a fire hydrant in front of Rope's drugstore, locked the doors on a treasure of three-quarters of a million dollars, and joined the two guards at the soda counter inside. Leaving a truck unguarded is strictly against company rules, but the trio had safely sneaked coffee in Danvers many times before...
...week's end, after five days of frantic police investigation, only one thing about the robbery was really clear: Rope's drugstore had served the most expensive coffee in history...
...news spread through the gossipy capital of Jakarta that the government had sold out to the Western bloc. "American imperialism!" shouted the politicos. A newspaper published a cartoon showing Subarjo on his knees, offering Indonesian independence to MSA, represented by Ambassador Cochran dressed as a bride with a rope in his hand...
Writes Father Gerard: "While we were passing the time of day together, it struck me how close this tower was to the moat encircling the outer fortifications, and I thought it might be possible for a man to lower himself with a rope from a roof of the tower onto the wall beyond the moat." A few weeks later, with the help of confederates outside, he did exactly that...
...ground his son in the elements of decent behavior. Ned was about twelve years old when he ran away to sea; at 15 he was a midshipman in the Navy. At 21, he was dashing off sea stories and editing Ned Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville cemetery with the wife of a local auctioneer. When the husband opened fire, Buntline shot him through the head. An angry mob attacked Ned at the court hearing, but he escaped...