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The Times , which must be apoplectic that Gore is on the ropes, will do everything in its power, from pictures to captions to editorials, to stop Bush.
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.
Most autobiographies are more about concealing than telling, but Graham ropes off relatively little.
But within moments Diaz is up off 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.