Then he tied the rope to the top of the tree and Gary tied the other end to the winch on Mr. Pagoda's tow truck.

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Singstad said he and others tied a rope to her feet and tried unsuccessfully to pull her free, and the snow shovel and small saw they had brought were no match for the thick ice.

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As Nelson and Hick were toiling, firefighter and diver Shanna Hanson arrived on the north side, where, with just a rope tied around her waist, she dove repeatedly into the water, searching vehicles for possible survivors.

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"Somehow they got their hands tied up on the rope, " he said.

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Mrs Crabb said a member of staff had found the girl tied to a fence with a skipping rope.

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Late on 26 October, he wrote an emotional letter to his US counterpart, President Kennedy, imploring him "not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war".

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It heard Miss Hill had told parents their seven-year-old daughter had been tied to a fence and hit with a skipping rope by other children.

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