Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karachi last week U.S. Vice President Nixon bluntly warned that any country that takes Soviet economic aid on the supposition that it is without strings is likely to wind up with "a rope tied around its neck." But he went on to declare that U.S. aid to such countries might help them maintain their independence of Russia. A Pakistani official translated it this way to New York Times Correspondent Abe Rosenthal: "Mr. Nixon says Soviet aid will make you a satellite. Then he says we will keep on giving you money if you take aid from the Russians...
...anguish, defining the issue: "We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth"; Ulysses Grant, man of victory, summing up: "Our republican institutions were regarded as experiments up to the breaking out of the rebellion, and monarchical Europe generally believed that our republic was a rope of sand . . . Now it has shown itself capable of dealing with one of the greatest wars that was ever made, and our people have proven"themselves...
...boards the 102-ft. cargo junk that is to take him upriver from Ichang, he feels irritably caught in a vise of passivity. Once under way, the American is alternately fascinated and repelled by the work of the "trackers," human beasts of burden whose yoke is a bamboo rope, who haul the junk from precarious footholds, step by straining step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble is a kind of mythic Nature Boy who can chant his weary men through a rough gorge or leap into the treacherous waters to unsnag...
...Rope, by Louis Mennini, 35, Eastman faculty member and brother of Manhattan Composer Peter Mennin. The plot is based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill. An old miser dangles a noose from a barn rafter, hoping his son will hang himself. Instead, the son decides to torture the miser into revealing his money's hiding place. Composer Mennini spent a summer learning the ins and outs of opera composition at Tanglewood, and used his knowledge well. The rub was the music; it seemed too charmingly melodious for the gruesome plot...
...Dartmouth system prescribes that a student must pass a rope climb, a standing broad jump, a speed-agility obstacle test, and a swim test within a narrowly prescribed time limit, as well as fulfilling certain other minimum standards...