Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murray could regard the home team's travail with wry humor. "What was happening to the Dodgers," wrote Murray, "could only be described as a slump if you think of what happened to General Custer as a slump. I have seen happier people on the end of a rope than the Dodgers on the bus ride home. The players even cursed in whispers...
From 24 nations, a muscular army of 10,000 descended on Stuttgart, pitched their tents in public parks, and ate the city out of fresh fruit. Their weapons were the Indian club, the skipping rope and the trampoline; their uniforms were the leotard, the sweatshirt, and the bloomer; their hearts were uncompetitive and simon-pure. It was amateur night all week. In Stuttgart's commodious Nechar Stadium (capacity 90,000) and in 15 overflow halls around town, the third world festival of amateur gymnasts, the Gymnaestrada (the "way to gymnastics"), was under...
...sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts in such boom-or-bust settlements as Tombstone, Seymour and Bisbee, where the town's first lynch mob stopped at Mike's emporium to borrow a suitable length of rope. He retired to California in 1885, leaving the stores to his three sons, Morris, Henry and Baron...
...crowd of 200 citizens lined up respectfully behind the rope barriers and watched as the 125-ft. yacht North Wind backed up to the quay at the thyme-scented village of Epidaurus. A tall, handsome young woman stepped from the yacht and walked the length of the pier alone, followed at a distance by her four yachting companions. She was tawny with the Aegean sun, barelegged, dressed casually in a sleeveless beige dress-and it was hard to realize that she was the same Jacqueline Kennedy who had swept like a queen through Paris, Vienna and London only...
...With admirable Yankee practicality, one Rhode Island dealer advertises: "For those who wouldn't like to be caught dead in a plush-lined coffin," a mail-order traditional plain wooden box with strong rope handles, at $120. "Cover it with cushions, and it can double as a storage chest and low seat until needed for its ultimate purpose...