Word: ropes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bennie Shupe, first curiously, then aggressively hostile. The peasants marched them off toward a village, began slapping, kicking, hitting them, dug into their pockets for souvenirs as they loaded them into cars and trucks. The truck carrying Major Shupe stopped beside a telephone pole. One peasant threw a grass rope over a hook high on the pole. Said Shupe: "It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized. I had no doubt they were going to hang...
...waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. Her sails are of Terylene (British equivalent of Dacron), and her running rigging is of the same material (with each rope dyed according to a quick-handling color code-blue, green, white, red or yellow). Below decks, even her plumbing is of synthetic Polythene, instead of copper, to save weight...
...winged-egg head, who carried a staff with a crepuscular moth. The third figure was what Dali called "the true butterfly of tranquillity"-a maiden in yellow, with a head composed of blue, red and yellow flowers. For a finale, there was another maiden (with real hair) skipping rope on the way to the promised land of tranquillity...
Tricked up in his party duds, Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver helped raise a few ($3,000) dollars at a Democratic fund-raising party with some hokumy sleight of hand, included in his act a cautious display of rope twirling. Also in the spirit of things was leggy Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior Senator Richard Neuberger, who for the party's fashion show slithered out on stage in a figure-hugging one-piece bathing suit, with companion checked beach coat...
Subversive. In Perugia, Italy, Luigi Durante, in jail for theft, threw a rope over a hook in the ceiling of his cell, tried to hang himself, had four months added to his sentence when the hook pulled out of the ceiling and he was found guilty of "doing material damage to the state...