Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite props of the North Vietnamese captors were lengths of rope, iron manacles that could be screwed down to the bone and fan belts for administering beatings. Prisoners claimed that they were tied up for interminable periods into positions that yogis could not assume. Ropes tied to a man's ankles, wrists and neck were tightened until he was bent over backward in a doughnut shape. Men were also bent forward into a position of a baby sucking its big toe. The ropes cut off circulation, and in several cases paralyzed limbs for months, even years...
...special tap code, he said, he "could send a message through five rooms and get an answer back in ten minutes. We really got pretty fast at it." The price for being caught was high. Although his leg was still draining, Kasler was subjected to all manner of rope and iron tortures...
...They had these iron manacles with a screw that they could clamp on your wrists or ankles. They'd take your wrists, put them behind you and screw down those manacles to the bone. Then they'd take a rope and pull it through your upper arms and squeeze your arms together or pull them up. They had a lot of tricks...
...They demanded that I surrender. They hit me on the ears. They gave me the rope-and-irons treatment for 45 minutes, then had me kneel, then the irons again. I finally passed out. The third time they gave me the rope-and-irons treatment, I said, 'I surrender...
...Albini collection, and New York's giant Alexander's, which specializes in translating luxury fashions into mass sales, is promoting the Gatsby theme in every department. Its mannequins wear short or bobbed hair under cloche and Panama hats, Art Deco jewelry in clunky imitation ivory, long rope necklaces of pearl or amber, narrow belts and long, long scarves. "We've just emerged from an ethnic, costume period," says Alexander's Fashion Designer Francine Farkas. "Halloween is over." Even Levi Strauss is making wide-legged, cuffed pants and V-neck sweaters. "We have more white than...