Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shootouts that continued even after her capture in 1972. Last week Meinhof used desperation's last resort against herself. Guards at Stuttgart's Stammheim prison, where she, along with three fellow terrorists, had been confined for a year, found Meinhof hanging from her cell window, a makeshift rope of toweling around her neck...
...postponed mentioning Guy Clark's No. 1 (RCA) till now to try to get a grip on myself. Never mind: it's probably the finest country album I've ever heard. The best numbers are "Rita Ballou" ("She's a rawhide rope and velvet mixture/ Walkin' talkin' Texas texture/ High timin' barroom fixture/ Kind or a girl") and "Texas--1947". This is the first album for Clark, a first-rate songwriter who wrote a lot of Jerry Jeff Walker's material. His voice is a raunchy beer-soaked, high whine, gritty and vital. Playboy calls his songs "Larry McMurtry...
Among the traditional Boy Scoutskills to be practiced at Harvard are rope work, signalling and leaf identification...
Officials of the Metropolitan District Commission will rope off parts of Soldiers Field Road during the parachuting to prevent accidents resulting from missed targets...
When McDonald's executives contest the charges of restriction of consumer choice and cultural imperialism, Boas and Chain give them enough rope to hang themselves. Company spokesmen point out, for example, that the McDonald's in London serve tea, and that advertisers in Japan, out of deference to the Japanese tongue, changed Ronald McDonald's first name to Donald. To those who feared a forest of golden arches across the land, President Turner once replied that "uninterrupted scenery, too, can get pretty monotonous...