Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the mob had congealed in Stockton's four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...
...house, crammed into broken windows. Bottles, broken furniture, boxes, cartons also filled her house. The roof was peeling, the paint had long since flaked from the outside walls. Hedges grew tree-high around the yard. Rigged behind one of the doors was a bundle of newspapers, a rope and a hammer, so arranged that if anyone entered without Miss Claudius' permission (never granted), the hammer would fall on the intruder's head. In the warm months, as soon as Miss Claudius got up, she repaired to her backyard, where she kept an old piano, weathering but still tuneful...
...Father John Collins had finished the Church's last rites to two youthful prisoners. The priest left, and then the young men walked down the prison yard to a scaffold. Their hands were tied, black hoods were slipped over their heads, and a rope was fitted snugly around their necks. As the executioners sprang the traps, witnesses removed their hats...
...first thing that struck me was that the sun was shining, and that the great ship had completely disappeared. ... I came up within a foot of a life raft (one of those yard-square contraptions which are festooned with rope and wooden handgrips) and caught hold of it. Somebody was close to me in the water. Looking back, I am more and more amazed by the unreality of the whole affair. I remember being seriously worried as to the propriety of scrambling on top of this raft. I was not au fait with ocean etiquette. For all I knew, good...
Nelson threw us a rope and we made fast. We were then towed about for two hours. They tried first to salvage an empty lifeboat but the bottom had been stove in. They then picked up one poor woman who was clinging to a piece of wood, and an unconscious man who was starfished on a hatch board. He was covered with engine oil and had a great bloody eye. It was my friend and cabin steward, Dickson...