Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offers a variety of trails for most beginning and intermediate skiers. A few miles past North Conway, in the increasingly popular Jackson area, are Balack and thorn Mountains. At Black Mountain there is a 2500-foot Alpine lift, and at Thorn a 4000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows which give access to a great number of trails for the novice and the expert...
...bottle. In Washington, the society of the cave-dwellers was sacrificed on the time clock of a U.S. Government that became too busy for measured elegance. But in Chicago, high society has survived almost intact from the days when Mrs. Potter Palmer led the elite around by her pearl rope necklace. Even in Chicago something has been lacking. Not in years-not, in fact, since the Palmer days of the '905-has Chicago had an acknowledged queen of society...
...also a year in which a white man and a brown man, held together by a light nylon rope, climbed the highest mountain. In this feat of the New Zealand beekeeper, Edmund Hillary, and the sinewy Sherpa tribesman, Tenzing, millions down in the mundane valleys felt a vicarious exhilaration-the reminder that by valor and dedication man may surmount his Everests...
...platitudes of Pa Kettle. At best, drama must be light-weight, with much false emotion and conflict of typed personalities. But the lines of patient people waiting to see Martin Luther prove that picture executives have at least as great a share of fallibility as Luther claimed for the Rope...
...hill of Champel, just outside the city of Geneva, a man was made ready for burning. A crown of straw and leaves sprinkled with sulphur was placed on his head, and a thick rope was wound around his neck. He was chained to a stake and a pile of fresh wood lay at his feet. A book of his own authorship, called The Restoration of Christianity, was bound to his arm. When the executioner waved the torch before his face, he cried out: "O Jesus. Son of the Eternal God, have pity on me." Then the faggots were...