Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year a log attached to the rope split, sending a thousand Indians sprawling, inflicting one broken leg, one broken arm, two concussions, numerous bruises, and slight abdominal injuries. The latter were suffered by a sophomore when a piece of log caught him in the belly...
...bologna-what else? How? Well, just like he always did. His two pals, who were 12 and 13, had lowered him through the skylight, waited until he passed out some sausage and $19 from the till, and then had started hauling him back up to the roof. But the rope had broken, and they...
...young, picnickers found scattered human bones in the bushes near a beach on the South Shore. Police accumulated all the evidence they could find and sent it to Dr. Moritz, then head of the department. The bones were that of a woman. Tied around her neck was a thick rope...
Then the department calculated how much that particular kind of rope shrank in that climate. Once the victim's neck size was ascertained, 20 young nurses with the same neck size were used to discover how the rope had been wrapped, tied, and so forth. Much about the murderer can be learned this way--whether he was left-handed, short or tall, heavy or slight...
...heart's not great," wrote a poetical one of their number, "that fears a little rope." On the last ride, the condemned highwayman cracked wise to his friends in the crowds that lined the way, and following a custom established by an early gentleman of the road on his way to the gallows...