Word: rope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduction of tariffs and elimination of quotas. Only a week before, four Congressmen at the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington had warned that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing the rope, bicycle, textile, brass and copper industries, all hard hit by foreign competition, they huddled at a Washington hotel and agreed to apply some skillful pressure to weaken the chamber's free-trade policy...
...damages to the Rollands, an anonymous letter postmarked Paris arrived at their home. "Congratulations on the good business," it read. "Several million francs-now there's a death that pays off ..." Leaving a note that said, "I am going to join Alain," Banker Rolland last week tied a rope to a rafter in his bathroom, hanged himself...
...filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest, another a former German army captain, who subsists mainly on the bitterness of his country's defeat. There is a French Jew at the end of his rope, a money-adoring Belgian, who is accompanied by his eleven-year-old deaf-mute daughter and the French prostitute he is engaged to marry. With them goes the commander of the soldiers, fleeing a situation beyond his control...
...arrow message service, a primitive but effective system under which messages tied to arrows are shot across rivers and deep ravines along key routes. Arrow messages, couriers on mountain ponies, native runners brought word that the Red Chinese had sealed off all the passes into Sikkim and cut the rope and bamboo bridges leading into Bhutan. The only escape route left open was the one the Dalai Lama took, over the rough trails to Towang on the Indian border...
...just a ten-year-old in Penns Grove, N.J. when he set his mind on becoming Tarzan-or a movieland version of him. Hanging ropes from the tallest trees around, he spent hours swinging from tree to tree. As he grew up, he even began to look the part-tall, dark and handsome, with awesomely muscled arms and shoulders. At Villanova University, Don Bragg neglected rope swinging for pole vaulting, flew so high, despite his hefty 200 Ibs.. that two months ago he set the world's indoor record of 15 ft. 9½ in. But Bragg remained...