Word: roped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thwarted by the comatose crowd's lack of enthusiasm. Kelley and Danielle, our faithful karaoke fans, channeled their energy toward the skee-ball alleys. After what seemed like an hour and a year's tuition's worth of tokens, they returned, exhilarated and carrying their winnings: a fluorescent orange rope-bracelet and a holographic pencil. All in all, a successful night's work. I had to speculate what kind of freaks accrued enough skee-ball points to afford the 600-token South Park wind-up toys, much less the 400,000-token CD player...
Byrd's murder was a heinous crime against a man and his family, but it was also something larger. Lynching is the iconic Old South crime, used to punish slave insurrections. Lynch mobs traditionally hanged their victim from a rope tossed over a tree limb. But dragging deaths were not uncommon, first from horses, later from cars and trucks. Lynching was at once a brutal act of vigilante injustice and a larger statement--a warning to blacks to remain subservient...
...Democratic Senate nomination; she pledged to step aside if Hillary were to run. The next day Hillary and the President appeared before a throng of supporters in Buffalo, N.Y. In a neat reversal of their usual roles, Hillary kept Clinton waiting 15 minutes while she worked a rabid rope line. The next time Rangel and Hillary spoke, it was she who made the call. Last Tuesday, before she released her statement of noncommitment, she phoned Rangel again. "Thank you for all you've done," Rangel says she told him. "I am very, very serious about this...
...feared the worst. On his third pass, he hurled a hammer at the hull. It landed with a sharp crack. Moments later, an escape hatch in the stern opened and out crawled a weary Autissier. Yelling "Super!" she set a raft in the water, Soldini tossed her a rope, and she pulled herself close enough to climb aboard. Reporting in, Soldini said he was warming her spirits with wine and cheese, and Autissier, arguably France's most popular female sports figure, assured fans she was "on an Italian cruise now, and not unhappy about that...
Typically, Grover's sessions with Jordan began with a light warm-up--jumping rope, pedaling a stationary bike--to get blood flowing freely to muscles. Jordan then worked through a series of stretches that engaged each of the major muscle groups, from the feet to the neck and out to the fingers, in just 10 minutes. "He stretched before and after each workout, even when he did three workouts a day," Grover says. Jordan also stretched individual muscles between sets of weight-training exercises and, of course, as part of his warm-up routine before games...