Word: rope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the Wall closed, East Berliners turned quickly to the old, familiar escape techniques they had used before Christmas. A family of five, whose apartment abutted the Wall, skidded down a rope dangling from a bedroom window. The same night, a trio of dusty girls popped into the basement of a West Berlin apartment after a harrowing scramble through a 450-ft. tunnel whose mouth lay in an East Berlin coal-yard. But border guards soon found the tunnel and blasted it shut...
...days a week. If a concierge goes on vacation, she must find a substitute at her own expense. Traditionally, concierges have also been on call all night in order to open the street door for everyone going in and out by pulling a cordon, a rope which releases the door catch...
...Here You Are, Luv." Tying a rope to his feet, the ship's swimming pool attendant had himself lowered over the side head first, so that he could pull several children through portholes from smoke-filled cabins. Just before going over the side, Susan Redfern opened her pocketbook and gave her husband a gift package. "Here you are, luv," she said. "Merry Christmas." The package contained a handsome pair of gold cuff links...
...smoothly entertained through dinner, under a ceiling so high that the usual stratum of nightclub-blue smoke rises healthily out of sight. Right now, though the tinkly quiet has vanished, extra chairs have been packed in, and jam ming crowds nightly try to fight their way past the velvet rope- for the smoke is on the performing floor. Ethel Mer man is there...
...another Massachusetts Democrat, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, is doing more for the state, the chairman admitted, "it is at the expense of 49 other states." He warned that the Kennedys "like all Democrats," are only interested in getting re-elected, and added, "Just give those three Irishmen enough rope and they'll hang themselves...