Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climbers looked for short cuts. Rashly they scrambled down a 250-ft. cliff to a wide and treacherous snow field. Suddenly Neal disappeared. "I was walking on some wet rock," he remembered later, "when I slipped and fell into a 75-ft. crevasse." Hastily the climbers lowered a rope. The end caught in a cranny beyond Neal's reach. Ice water trickled into Neal's upturned face. Three-quarters of an hour passed and still he could not reach the rope. Then Tony Levy told the others to lower him into the crevasse. He got a rope around...
Until he reached middle age, he persisted in his favorite sport of mountain climbing. Then one day, as he was descending a dangerous peak, his rope jammed, and he went plunging downward to dangle helplessly over a deep chasm. "For 20 minutes I could not move," Alcide de Gasped recalled later. "Then I swung over to a ridge and was safe. Well, I was 54 then, and I decided I had better give up climbing. But looking back, it had been a good school for political fighting...
...success and take home a Doris Lee lithograph of plump bathers in a black pool. Four winning ticket holders got a good deal more: their choice of any painting or sculpture in the place. The fortunate four picked Anton Refregier's crisp figure piece, Boy Drying Rope, a lush little still life by Sigmund Menkes, a thickly sketched townscape by Eugene Ludins, and Carl Walters' ceramic dog. The dog-an inconsequential thing done perfectly-was the best...
...Italians struggled upwards. nailing down a rope-rail that stretched every inch of the way. Nights, they crouched in tents, often with half the canvas hanging over the slope for lack of level ground. K-2 gave no quarter, and after many days of heartbreak, they were driven back down to 25,000 feet. There the expedition reorganized, and Desio sent the fittest to try the assault again...
...calls this show Faces in the Window, plays weird music as he reads and scares his listeners with a bagful of simple but effective tricks. For a story where a man is hanged, he had the camera turn slowly back and forth to suggest a corpse swinging on a rope. Trick lights and a turtleneck sweater make his cadaverous face appear to float in air, and sometimes a zoomar lens moves in until only one glittering Nordine eye fills up the television screen...