Word: roped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office for the recent PBH rally, he probably doesn't need the space too badly. Santa will replace the demolished Carey Cage by converting Dean Lewis' office into a gym for varsity athletes. However, due to limited space, this new facility wills only feature a Thigh master, a jump rope, and a copy of the aerobics video "Buns of Steel...
...Alumni Association ad hoc committee that wished to honor Harvard's Confederate war dead also deserves something special. Since their proposal was tabled by the Board of Overseers, Santa will build a memorial for them in the Yard. A plaque will be placed on a suitable tree, and a rope will dangle from one of its branches to salute one of the greatest legacies of the Confederacy lynching...
THOSE "INDEPENDENT'' ENTREPRENEURS out there in the "Golden West'' would probably bitch if they were hanged with a new rope. It is infuriating that the folks who get such lucrative subsidies from the Federal Government have the nerve to talk of a rebellion against that government, while taxpayers in other parts of the country must pick up the tab. ALEXANDER D. BELL, Dallas
...President. "If he succeeds, they'll praise him; if he fails, they'll criticize him," said Representative Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat. A Republican congressional staff member was even more blunt. "If the Commander in Chief wants to hang himself," he said, "who are we to take away his rope...
...rationales have long been forgotten. They're useless." Indeed, the Citadel's ego-stripping program can be worse than useless. One Citadel graduate was among the four Rangers who froze to death in a training exercise in Florida this year. His instructors told him to continue to string a rope in 52-degree water, and he did so until he died. Pentagon statistics show that since 1989 seven soldiers have died in training for every one killed in combat...