Word: ropes
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...room was packed with excited students, tutors, and even the House Master’s wife and daughter, who watched Wright’s card tricks, rope illusions, and ring acrobatics with amazement...
...wars suck up lots of precious resources and promised to "work closely with Congress to address these costs." For the moment, he is content to do what he has done best - connect with his immediate audience. After the speech ended, he worked the West Point cadets like a campaign rope line, smiling for many a digital camera. The glad-handing won't help in Afghanistan, but it looked good on television, suggesting support from a military that will now be asked to sacrifice some more...
...letter to Halsey’s family, Stuart C. Wulsin ’06 recalled a time when Halsey rescued an inebriated student from the Cabot House roof by devising a contraption made from rope and a harness...
According to the statement, which was sent to the College community yesterday afternoon, the victim reported that an unidentified man approached her from behind and slipped a thin rope over her head...
With an exception during World War II, when the government planted huge hemp crops to supply naval rope needs and make up for Asian hemp supplies controlled by the Japanese, marijuana was criminalized and harsher penalties were applied. In the 1950s Congress passed the Boggs Act and the Narcotics Control Act, which laid down mandatory sentences for drug offenders, including marijuana possessors and distributors...