Word: belaying
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...young to go on his own, and in an effort to become closer to his son, my Dad agreed to accompany him. He came back with his hands sliced to ribbons and stories of how he fell off the mountain three times. But my brother had held the belay, and they came back closer. And while Dad told me that it was a miserable experience he never wished to repeat, he must have painted a different picture for his friends and colleagues. Sherman went to the same climbing school and has scaled mountains ever since, often taking his son with...
...fact a member of a sophisticated kidnapping ring that abducts not for ransom but for hire--usually by politicians, businessmen or criminals who want to scare rivals into submission. Aguilar was highly trained for the ring's SWAT-style ops--to fly single-engine planes, for instance, and belay from a helicopter. "We weren't like the sloppy ransom kidnappers," he says. "We had an honor code...that dictated that you don't commit violence if you don't have...
Some readers have zero tolerance for the genre of seagoing adventures. To such landlubbers, nautical language all sounds distressingly like shiver-me- mizzenmast or belay-the-taffrail or somesuch, and they quickly jump ship in search of books written in more accessible prose. Too bad for them, because they have therefore missed the high-sailing novels of Patrick O'Brian...
...visible. Martik; was able to get permission to move most of the graves scattered over their leased area in small family plots but was denied access to that one pinnacle close to the company offices. The only way to visit the grave site now is by helicopter or on belay, but when Martiki is through, there will be a "nice road leading up there to a small parking lot," says Tuomisto...
...Washington. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee chaired by Senator Edmund Muskie last week, Navy Secretary John H. Chafee frankly admitted that the dumpings violated "the spirit and intent of legislation signed by the President [the Envfronmental Protection Act of 1970] only eight months ago." The Navy, he promised, will belay such practices from now on. Still not impressed, Muskie called the Mayport foul-up "incredible," and added that it casts doubt on the Government's ability to enforce its own rules...