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The NYT 's Ventura effort is accompanied by a color picture of the governor-elect trouncing a previous opponent--in 1985, by stomping him into the ropes.
Most of Higashi-Honganji is closed to the public, but the main hall and founder’s hall, rebuilt in 1895 after repeated fires, are notable for the rather gross ropes of human hair fashioned from donations by female worshippers to haul the temple’s pillars into position.
The piece says that "the future of gender-integrated training in the military is on the ropes."
In the northern Mexican states, especially Sonora, these ropes used to lasso animals from on horseback sometimes are--or anyway were-- woven of strands of rawhide, which is elastic.
American cowboys, perhaps confusing the Spanish dale with English dally, began to understand, maybe at the cost of an eye or two, and in their own lingo called the rawhide lariats dally ropes . That, at least, was the etymology current in Southern Arizona, which was plausible enough to convince me.