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They decided to try to retrieve the ball and, with ropes and lanterns, they entered the hole and discovered a magical landscape 37 m (120 ft) underground.
But within moments Diaz is up off the ropes:
Burton, on the ropes after a particularly tough Tony Snow ( Fox News Sunday ) question, retreats with the most transparent wiggle of the weekend.
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.
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.