Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scelba keep in mind the fact that the more one stretches the rope, the easier it breaks." Thus did the extremists declare war last week on Italy's new Premier Mario Scelba...
...Shaken Rope. The jet stream is not like a surface river, confined between solid banks. It whips around like a shaken rope, and to predict its position, speed and direction takes both knowledge and skill. Pan Am gathered all available data and added observations of its own. Last year, its meteorologists felt they knew enough to take the plunge. The Stratocruisers were regularly scheduled to fly nonstop from Tokyo. The first flight made Honolulu in 11½ hrs. instead...
...more than 500 well-wishers turned out at Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport to see Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent take off last week on a round-the-world good-will tour. As the Prime Minister's limousine pulled up at the airstrip, they broke through the rope barriers in a rush of friendly enthusiasm. St. Laurent, politely doffing his black Homburg, plunged into the crowd, shaking hands and alternately bidding goodbye and au revoir as he worked his way toward the plane...
Higher education today is too often characterized by a trade-school approach to knowledge. More and more students now rush through a prescribed curriculum as quickly as possible, treading a narrow tight-rope to a job or a professional school. In this era where mere factual knowledge frequently serves as an index of intelligence, the University has symbolized the broad intellectual maturation that learning should...
...trails. Topping the list is Stowe (Mount Mansfield) which reports good to excellent skiing on 21 to 40 inches of base with five inches of backed power. Stowe has the longest chair lift in the East, in addition to a T-bar lift and a whole slew of rope tows, providing many excellent trails for novice to expert. Nearby, Mad River Glen, With its mile long lift, sports a mountain almost as big as Stowe's, but with waiting lines much shorter. Big Bromley and Pico Peak always have snow and good skiing...