Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other member nations in Eu rope, the fund could also lend support. If necessary, France could draw up to $525,-000,000; The Netherlands, $275,000,000; Austria, $50,000,000. But Director Jacobsson did not think the need would arise. The size of the loan to Britain would help stabilize the sterling area with which France and other West European nations are associated, make it unnecessary for them to withdraw their quotas...
...cutting corners to make a dollar. His technique is unfortunate, but his exclamations are delightful--"Well, here's a nice bucket o'worms." His colleagues are less colorful, but more devoted to their trade. Their distaste for their unscrupulous competitor is eased by their faith that, "Give him enough rope, he's sure to hand himself some...
Smoldering Cigars. Floyd Patterson, a cool ("He's like ice in a glass," said a trainer), lithe and rope-muscled Negro, was potentially the youngest champion (as Moore was undoubtedly the oldest). Only a few years before, Patterson had been an underprivileged Brooklyn kid, a tough and aimless truant who ran with the back-street gangs and snarled himself into a school for wayward boys. He came out of a lower East Side gymnasium to win the 1952 Olympic middleweight championship at 17, went on through a passel of rugged amateur scraps and only one defeat in 31 professional...
...Museum's elevator offered unique possibilities, since it was neither automatic nor electric. The only mechanical advantage consisted of a winch and a few gears at the top of the shaft. To go up, one simply kept pulling down the main rope. The elevator descended of its own accord with any sort of a weight. And to stop at any of the floors, the rider pulled on the "brake rope," which stopped the winch from unwinding...
Starting from the top of the Museum, Hollister and Fisher began their descent. They never touched the brake rope. "By the time we passed the first floor, we had gained pretty good momentum," Hollister recalls...