Word: roping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blind to the flattery the right shape can add; the sailor hat, the princesse, the cloche, the cartwheel, the turban, the coolie-surely one of these set off your face. Of course, if your desire softness and subtley, you can luxuriate in flowers, fruits feathers, wires fauna, flora, and rope...
Metropolitan police will rope-off the area tomorrow morning for greater safety, since blood officials anticipate a large crowd of Cambridge children...
...bribe Johnson to take a dive. Johnson politely replied: "Tell Mister Jim that we are going to do the best we know." In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring. He was not counted out-nobody ever counted Big Jim out -but he would have been if his seconds hadn't thrown in the towel...
Reid's own getaway was a masterpiece of timing, meticulous preparation and sheer nerve. In & out of windows, over roofs, dashing for cover when sentries made their turns, and so out through a flue, Reid and three companions reached the outer wall and let themselves down on a rope of sheets. Using forged identity cards made by prisoner experts, and equipped with civilian clothes, a memorized map and German learned at Colditz, Reid and one of his pals made good progress through Germany...
...Brooklyn College, Alfred met James Meagher, a poet who was a great inspiration to his writing. "In 1941, he sold a piano and started a magazine, The American Poet--with the grandiose idea that he could take any mass of writers and get one good poem, from children' jumping-rope rhymes to cerebral stuff. We got five hundred a week and only three of us to edit them . . . We had a sense that something great was going to happen, week after week, expecting a volley of applause . . . nothing would happen...