Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newfoundland town. Half an hour after she slipped into the smooth bay she was outward bound, hitched to a tugboat, for a short haul to her outfitting port. The four men aboard her had food for two days, a small stove, a teakettle, an ax, lamp, nails and some rope...
Four days later a plane spotted the hull, 150 miles out to sea. Tugs towed her to port. The Newfies were all hearty and in one piece. They had rigged up a rope to hold onto and had spent the time playing cards (Forty-Five is the Newfies' national game). They had '"lowanced" their food and settled down to wait...
...fundamental exercises, Samborski pointed out, have been used for a long time, and it's usually a question of deciding with Fradd what general points to work on, with each man using the proper methods for the purpose. Experimenting with rope-climbing and the obstacle wall in his 4:30 class, he's found that variety makes for more enjoyment, and has kept his classes longer without apparent over-fatigue. Several men even reached the top of the rope yesterday, and that's hot stuff
...disappearance of old-time sentiment and laciness is very much in evidence. Seasoned veterans of former years have searched in vain for the one card that would just capture their real feelings. Instead, he has had his choice of Valentines featuring such endearing gifts as a rope, with the suggestion that it be worn around the neck...
Blitz Course. Toughest exercise of all was the 500-yd. blitz course which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready...