Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, the Prime Minister is more animated as he jokes with his family and friends. If anyone happens to show an interest in nursery schools, he pins him down. He will probably rope the victim into his favorite charity, the Margaret MacMillan Memorial Fund, pledged to raise ?250,000 to establish nursery schools in Britain's poor districts...
...Brink's men were told to lie down, faces to the floor; they were bound with chandler's rope, and their mouths were taped with adhesive. Then the robbers went to work, scooped Federal Reserve sacks into big white cloth bags, kicked an occasional $1,000 in coins out of the way to get at the folding money. The bandits dragged the full bags downstairs to a black car waiting on narrow Prince Street, returned for fresh loads...
Cashier Lloyd loosed his bonds in a few minutes and called Boston police. The first officers arrived in two minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...
...prisoners were bound by a long rope. As they marched past the handsome NKVD lieutenant, they thought him "a rescuer who had providentially arrived to remove their chains." This feeling was an illusion, of course, for the lieutenant was taking them to Siberia to work as slaves in the gold mines. But he seemed so kind, so eager to treat them as unfortunate men rather than political outcasts, that for a while they could not help loving...
Harvard College meant to take no chances. As a postwar requirement, every freshman living in Harvard Yard's hallowed but inflammable old halls had to know how to make a quick exit by rope. Last week the dean's office declared there had been too much backsliding in rope sliding, ordered all proctors to see that their charges had clambered down a twelve-footer at least twice. Some, like Freshman John Brown of Holworthy Hall, practised from their windows (see cut), others in the gym. Among Harvard's reasons from stricter enforcement: last winter's Kenyon...