Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lynching party stood him up on a box, roped him to a telegraph pole and told him to jump. He refused. They kicked the box out from under him and the rope parted. They grabbed him, put a ladder against the pole, forced him up, strung him up again and yanked the ladder away. George wrapped his arms & legs around the pole and hung on. But George eventually got tired, and the lynching was a success...
Then there is Harold Alzana, who walks on a high wire. He also skips rope on a high wire. Finally, he rides a bike on a high wire, carrying a friend on his shoulders and two swinging trapezists from the hubs, Seventy-five feet down a uniformed attendant follows him with outstretched arms, just in case...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Burt Lancaster in Rope of Sand...
...began to pack blankets and Thermoses for a fishing trip. Jackin and Prowska became certain that the Simons were leaving to escape the secret police. Next morning, Prowska woke to find her husband gone. She stumbled into the garage and found his body, swinging from the rafters by the rope which had tied his bundle from Europe...
...third-floor window and cried: "We ask the gendarmes to retire. This is a legal demonstration. Gendarmes have no business here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram and we'll take care of you, you lousy scab!" yelled a red-scarved striker. Another scrambled to the tram top. While thousands watched, the Leopoldist and anti-Leopoldist squared off, pummeled each other, the proletarian champions of the factions...