Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill of eternity, it will surely sell itself to the Devil for a cooling drink, In Yucatan, on the other hand, the Chan Kom tribesmen beat the dying with a rope and urge them to get on with...
Like so much citrus fruit, patrons turn up to be graded. Discrimination once occurred at the door and at the velvet rope, but it now occurs more notably inside. Where one is seated is all-important; Big-Namesville may be just a table away from Squaresburgh, but the distance in prestige cannot be measured. The far side of the dance floor at El Morocco might as well be on the far side of the Urals. Restaurants, of course, are similarly ordered; according to bright, ubiquitous Leonard Lyons, best of the New York chroniclers, the rear room upstairs...
Where it can, Mexico also gives Castro's Cubans as little rope as possible. The Mexican government keeps a watchful eye on Castro's diplomats, grants very few visas to Cubans, either pro-or anti-Castro. Pemex, the state oil monopoly, turned down a Cuban request for technicians to help operate the refineries that Castro had seized from U.S. companies...
...government in providing for the nuclear progress of the U.S. in the interests of military security. If we can think of nothing in the field of arms control about which to negotiate except a ban on nuclear tests we are indeed at the end of our political and diplomatic rope...
...Boss's head in The Hucksters. He often pioneered shock scenes. In Red Dust (1932) he discovered Jean Harlow bathing in a rain barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed nothing but a glossy chest, he touched off a crisis among undershirt manufacturers...