Word: roped
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...opening his Bible, stood with his back to the marble fireplace, surrounded by the little semicircle of 44 guests. Close by stood Hopkins' ten-year-old daughter, Diana, wistful and pretty in a cocoa-colored crepe dress and a brown straw hat. While Harry Hopkins put a gold-rope wedding ring on his bride's finger, little Diana held her new stepmother's bouquet...
...pale through the heat haze. A plane flying less than 15 ft. off the ground churned through the air toward two uprights, like football goal posts, set up on the airport. Squatting under the plane's line of flight was a glider, tethered to a rope which looped in a big "U" over the two posts and back to the plane. The plane swooped in. hooked the rope. The glider shot aloft, trailing...
There was a long silence. The reporters knew that land-mine duty in Britain took at least as much courage as fighter-piloting. During the blitzes, and after the Nazis' smaller raids, land-mine squads had to rush to spots where the huge parachute-bombs had fallen, rope off the area, then try to dismantle the mines and make them harmless before they exploded...
...mystery of France's big, beloved old General Henri Honoré Giraud was no longer a mystery. When the 63-year-old general said he had escaped from Germany's Königstein fortress-prison by letting his ponderous body down 60 feet of self-made rope (TIME, May 11), the out-side world raised an eyebrow, suspected that Germany might have some use for a great French hero of both World Wars...
...sexagenarian general's rope trick was, however, no illusion. He wanted to help France. But when he reached Vichy he found a France quite unlike anything he had heard about within Königstein's walls. Marshal Pétain embraced him, then gave him a paper to sign, which among other things pledged him never to take up arms against Germany. General Giraud balked. Then Pierre Laval slyly suggested that the general could do France a mighty service by offering to return to prison in exchange for 400,000 married French war prisoners. General Giraud was amenable...