Word: lassoing
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This year, Gibbons wore a dog collar along with his boxers and was led around the reading room by Elizabeth Marks '99. Another co-op resident wore a garter belt, while a third swung his belt in the air like a lasso...
That role led to a swing part in The Will Rogers Follies, also on Broadway, where she ultimately took on a major role as Mary Rogers. It was in that role that Riegel learned to lasso, a skill she now markets, along with several accents...
According to Joshua Rubenstine, Northeast regional director of Amnesty International, the previous director Jose Ayala-Lasso's response to the Rwanda genocide had been a "disaster." More than 500,000 people died in the spring 1994 slaughter...
Lamm, unlike his rival, has managed to lasso a running mate: former two-term G.O.P. Congressman from Silicon Valley and high-tech executive Ed Zschau. Zschau (rhymes with wow), a Stanford-trained physicist who started his own computer business before entering Congress, has said Lamm's campaign should be "inspired chaos." His scientific analysis is already on target. Lamm has raised only about $100,000 and is not going to entice many new supporters with sound bites like this: "America is like the drunk who's looking for his keys under the streetlight even though he lost them down...
...VORTEX scientists managed to encircle 10 tornadoes in their virtual lasso, and the data they recorded--wind speed, temperature, pressure, humidity--have turned out to be extraordinarily rich. "We got more good data out of VORTEX," exclaims Peter Hildebrand of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado, "than we had collected in the past 30 years." Among other things, the chase teams managed to position a Turtle so it actually caught the sharp pressure drop as a VORTEX passed overhead; tucked into the center of the tornado's swirling interior, a cylinder of down-flowing air that...