Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cattle country until they spot an unguarded herd. Working swiftly, the thieves cut out the best cattle, load them onto their trucks and speed away to remote areas, where huge trailers are waiting with their lights off. After ten or 15 prime steers are led up a loading ramp into the trailer, the van roars off. Rustlers have no trouble selling the steers for up to $300 a head at regularly scheduled livestock auctions, some in Georgia and Alabama. Many ranchers contend that a portion of the stolen beef winds up in Florida's resort motels and Mafia-controlled...
Sentimental Ramp. The angelic form, like any other, responded to its environment. As if in answer to the formal strictness and intricate metaphysics of early medieval thought, with its insistence that the world is only a screen and a simile for divine existence, angels like the one who blows the last trump across the wall of the llth century Italian Basilica of St. Angelo in Formis are stern, unbending, and (literally) otherworldly. But the host of warrior angels that a North Italian artist, Guariento, painted in 1344-45, minus their wings and with a few adjustments of costume, could have...
...effect that humanism had on angels (in art, at least) was to stress what the creatures had in common with man. Before angels slid down the ramp of sentimentality at whose bottom they now lie, a perfect balance between their human and spiritual aspects was achieved by, among others, Giotto. The dead Christ was a sight to make angels weep, and in his fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Giotto summed up all its terrible pathos in the little angels that tumble like shot birds...
...takes time out from running a $1.7 billion corporation to pilot a soapbox racer? Robert Hansberger, 50, the president of Boise Cascade Corp., for one. At the wheel of his racer Tree, Hansberger swooped down the ramp past two middle-aged competitors to record his second straight triumph in the "Big Boys" division of the annual Treasure Valley Soapbox Derby in Boise, Idaho. For senior racers who may hope to emulate him, the timber industrialist has sage advice: "As in many things in life, maintain a low silhouette...
...unable to follow the pacer lights can frustrate the computer, which tries frantically to backtrack and pick up his car again. A second phase of the testing will involve a less complex arrangement of moving bands of green and white light on an electronic railing along the ramp; a driver who cannot or will not keep abreast of a green band (programmed, like the pacer lights, to deliver him to a predetermined slot in highway traffic) can either fall back and pick up another, catch up with one ahead or ignore the bands completely and go it alone...