Word: roped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shoot him, but Jonas manages to pass the deed to the farm on to his son. Miserable, Daniel runs out to the family boat and cries himself to sleep. Obviously, the Hacketts are farmers and not sailors since the gentle bobbing of the boat unlaces the feebly-tied mooring rope, setting Daniel adrift down the river...
Your cover photograph demeans marriage by showing a bride and groom bound to each other, an obvious parody of ``tying the knot.'' The use of rope around two nonthinking wax figurines waiting for meltdown is diabolical. If I were contemplating marriage or were newly married, gazing at your cover for too long would give me cold feet...
...granted today will dissipear. Yet despite this, post- modernists are demanding that money be re-allocated from the sciences to their departments. Diverting money from the sciences to the humanities, especially to those disciplines whose main concern is destruction of all that is rational, is equivalent to tying a rope around the future...
...efforts to re-seal the door are put into play. "We attempted to close the door, but that just didn't work," one Cabot sophomore said about his struggles with his firedoor neighbors while living in Canaday last year. "We tried putting furniture in front of it, we tried rope, then we finally tried super glue. Even after that, the door would be opened some times...
...communist saw holds that capitalists will gladly sell the rope that can be used to hang them. Fidel Castro is trying to adapt that maxim to secure a financial lifeline from the U.S. It is an article of faith in Havana that if only Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would rescue Cuba's economy. Last summer Castro tried to force the Clinton Administration into negotiations about improving ties by allowing more than 33,000 Cubans to flee the island for the U.S. The ploy did not work; the U.S. still...