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Bighorn Sheep Homecoming in Colorado
By KIRK JOHNSON
Last seen in the mountains southwest of Denver in the 1960s, bighorn sheep are back. The story is a mix of coincidence, historical accident, devastation and hope.


The discovery of the noose comes approximately two weeks after a black female student alleged that a group of white males chanted a racist song at her.

New Zealand parliament: Rawiri Waititi, a Maori politician, was kicked out of Parliament this week for forgoing a tie, which he called a “colonial noose,” in favor of a traditional Maori pendant. Now, a committee has decided the necktie isn’t mandatory.

Investigation underway after noose found on Duke campus

A noose was discovered hanging on a tree outside Duke University's student...

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Social Media and Mercy Slow the Noose in Iran  By THOMAS ERDBRINK 12:49 PM ET

Public hangings still attract hundreds of onlookers, but Iran’s enormous middle class is turning against capital punishment.

Meanwhile, the highly trained Japanese forces tightened the noose around Bataan, forcing the American and Filipino troops toward the tip of the peninsula, setting the stage for the final battle for Corregidor.

Google's algorithms become its noose
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Sanctions noose makes it harder for Japan's Koreans to help their own

springbok,

(sprĭng'bŏk') also spring·buck (-bŭk')
n., pl., springbok, or -boks, also springbuck or -bucks.
A small brown and white gazelle (Antidorcas marsupialis) of southern Africa, noted for its habit of repeatedly leaping high into the air when startled.

[Afrikaans : spring, to leap up (from Middle Dutch springhen) + bok, male deer (from Middle Dutch boc).]

the east has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

turret

[名]1 （大きな建物の装飾的な）小塔.2 （軍艦・戦車などの）回転砲塔；（飛行機の）突出機銃座.3 （旋 /ˈtʌrɪt /  NOUN

1A small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall, typically of a castle:a castle with fairy-tale turrets

1.1A low armoured tower, typically one that revolves, for a gun and gunners in a ship, aircraft, fort, or tank.

1.2A rotating holder for tools, especially on a lathe.

Derivatives

turreted

ADJECTIVE

Origin

Middle English: from Old French tourete, diminutive oftour 'tower'.

the noose tightened around German's Jews.

noose

(nūs)
n.

1. A loop formed in a rope by means of a slipknot so that it binds tighter as the rope is pulled. Also called running noose.
2. A snare or trap.

tr.v., noosed, noos·ing, noos·es.

1. To capture or hold by or as if by a noose.
2. To make a noose of or in.

[Middle English nose, probably from Old French nos, nous, knot, from Latin nōdus. See node.] 
noose[noose]

• 発音記号[núːs]

[名]

1 輪縄, 引き結び：投げ縄・首つり縄などの, 一端を引くと締まる結び方.

2 （自由を束縛するものとしての）わな.

3 ((the 〜))絞首刑.

put one's head ［neck］ into the ［in a］ noose

みずから窮地に陥る；わなにかかる；言質(げんち)を与えてしまう.

tighten the noose around ...

…の締めつけを強める.

The noose is hanging.

((米俗))準備万端整った；皆が首を長くして待っている.

━━[動](他)

1 〈縄などに〉引き結びを作る.

2 …を輪縄で捕える；…をわなに掛ける(trap).

noun

1A loop with a running knot, tightening as the rope orwire is pulled and used to trap animals or hangpeople:he began to choke as the noose tightened about histhroata hangman’s noosefigurative the West is exploring ways to tighten theeconomic noose

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1.1(the noose) Death by hanging:he earned a reprieve from the noose

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verb

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1Put a noose on (someone):she was noosed and hooded, then strangled by theexecutioner

1.1Catch (an animal) with a noose:the animal was eventually noosed and sedated bydog handlers

1.2Form (a rope) into a noose:Gomez had noosed a coil of rope around his neck

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Origin

Late Middle English: probably via Old French no(u)sfrom Latin nodus 'knot'.

Phrases

put one's head in a noose

1

Bring about one’s own downfall:if we pursue this idea, we could be putting our heads in a noose

"The Barbed Noose with the Mice

“帶刺的絞索與老鼠