Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seconds later, the Israeli warder called in Hebrew, "Mukhan!" (Ready), and then "Peheel!" (Action). The trap door fell open, and Eichmann's body, plunging out of sight into the room below, swung slightly at the end of the rope. The corpse was cut down, carried to a corner of the prison grounds where, in swirls of ground fog, it was thrust into an aluminum oven with a chimney at one end. A gas fire burned for two hours, reducing Eichmann's light frame to a handful of ashes. While the body was cremated, black smoke poured into...
...reputation for indifference to the poor, Castle walked the streets, inviting everyone he met to come to services, and rented storefronts where he gave daily religious services. To attract children into a new Young People's Fellowship group, he played basketball on city playgrounds with neighborhood boys, skipped rope with schoolgirls. Attendance at the three Sunday services he conducts now is seldom less than 400. The number of children enrolled in the church school has risen from 20 to 200-kids who in their scrubbed smiles and neat clothes would not have to shrink from comparison with...
...distance for the 220-yard freestyle has been changed to 200 yards, while the 440-yard freestyle has been lengthened to 500 yards. Both of these events will now finish at the end of the pool rather than at a rope line as previously...
...learned better. Hoofs pounding, the old bull charged wildly into the arena, spun dizzily to his left, then suddenly reversed himself and spun to his right-and Cowboy Reynolds hit the dirt with a thump. "I looked up," recalls Reynolds, "and one of the clowns was snapping a lead rope on him. Another clown got on his back, and they led him out of the arena. It was downright degrading. But it was sort of comical...
Hull at first coldly visualized Eichmann "with a rope around his neck," and although now "God has given me a slight feeling of compassion," the preacher still feels that Eichmann had a fair trial and ought to hang for his crimes. "I'm not interested in his body," he says. "But I am interested in his soul. He should be given a chance to save it. As Christians, we are obliged to offer him that much...