Word: railing
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...PULLING ONESELF OVER A RAIL is like a good old-fashioned pull-up," Lambacker says. "Doing sets to failure will get you strong...
...moved by D.'s hardship. After being referred to the "emergency" line at the court in Lowell, D. learned that Lowell is actually just a hop, skip and a two-hour ride away from Cambridge via several T-lines and the Commuter Rail. Yes, D. was required by law to appear in court, on a yet-to-be-determined date, somewhere near New Hampshire at 8:30 a.m. Several months later, D. found herself sweltering under the executioner's axe, trapped by civic responsibility...
Just the physical improvements are impressive. All the rusted metal detritus of battle has been swept up into neat piles waiting to be recycled into rail lines, girders and tools. Men and women break rock by hand to repave the highway that spirals down 7,000 ft. from the capital of Asmara to the seaport of Massawa. Workers trained by the grandfathers who built the railroad in the '30s lay reforged rails back toward Asmara; they have completed 26 miles in two years and cunningly restored the country's two 1938 Italian steam engines...
...There was a fire in the rail bed, burrowed underneath the rail," Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief William Rose said at the time...
...hours a day. Sadly, in a culture such as ours (which values asphalt and chain-link over bronze), peals like those in the campanile of St. Paul's are a rare treasure indeed. At a university which prides itself on the diversity of its community and whose students rail against the homogenization of Harvard Square, it strikes me as somewhat hypocritical that this unique portion of the Square's melange should be so derided...