Word: bridgeless
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...last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild, bridgeless mountain torrent. And once we found ourselves walking a stone path suspended on tree trunks jutting out over a cliff's edge as, above us, the mist closed in on our night's campsite. Keen walkers on the right side of 60, it was harder than we had expected...
...supplies to troops in the South. Swedish journalists who have visited North Viet Nam report that the country has numerous small diesel generators to make up for the loss of power plants. One State Department expert has calculated that there are 22 ways to get supplies across a bridgeless river -from small boats to flotation collars to pontoon bridges...
...this split between the active but lowbrow man-in-the-street and the wrangling but ineffectual man-of-intellect that Author McCarthy spins her tale. In McCarthy's fable, the incidents of everyday life on the mountaintop soon show that the split is in fact a bridgeless gulf, and Utopia itself a creation without foundations-doomed not so much by "history" as by the colonists' inability to produce "a commodity more tangible than morality" and hopeful...
...Silk. On the roads below the roaring air fleet, guns, trucks and marching men were raising dust clouds. Farther ahead were smudges of black smoke where heavy bombers were still beating up the target area. Suddenly, out of the smoke, the now bridgeless Rhine appeared, flowing placidly. In the lead transports gum-chewing paratroops were tense. From the jumpmaster in each plane came a curt command: "Stand up!" Then, "Hook up! . . . Stand in the door! . . . Go!" They went tumbling out, 15 men in ten seconds...
...which last week roared into its fourth week without a single day's interruption. Field Marshal von Rundstedt must have been thrown badly off balance. He had no doubt counted on plenty of time to regroup his forces, while Eisenhower prepared for the "naval operation" of crossing a bridgeless Rhine...