Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tied together with a rope, the two reached a tiny ledge at 10,000 ft. and paused to rest. The weather changed and storms swept the mountain flanks. The temperature fell below freezing. They huddled together, miserable and scared on the uncomfortable ledge. As time passed, one of the pair, Frenchman Claude Chulliat, 25, decided to risk his way down; his companion, George Barbacki, 23, a Pole, refused to budge. Chulliat started down alone...
...such as atomic energy and synthetic rubber, were vital to national security, and only the Government was big enough to finance them. But the Government also still operates many a business that has no such reason for existence. President Andrew Jackson began Boston's 119-year-old Navy Rope Walk so that the Navy would not be dependent upon Russian hemp. U.S. ropemakers can now supply all the Navy's needs, but the Boston Rope Walk goes merrily on, with that hardy indestructibility peculiar to Government businesses once they get going. In 1902 the Navy started to experiment...
...West Berlin's U.S.-sponsored RIAS radio. During the night some of their leaders were arrested; next day they all struck, and would not return to work even after a Russian officer offered to free the arrested men if they would go back. Joined by strikers from a rope plant and tractor factory, they marched around the mill demanding lower production norms and a 40% cut in prices, shouted for overthrow of the Communist regime, tore down Communist posters, ripped party pins off Communist lapels. They marched on Brandenburg proper, stormed the city prison and freed political prisoners. They...
...Rope Dealer. Into this leadership vacuum has blown a tornado from the Southwest, a Texas-size (6 ft. 3 in., 204 Ibs.) hunk of perpetual motion named Lyndon Baines Johnson. To rank & file Democrats outside his own state of Texas, he is little more than a familiar name. But as minority leader of the U.S. Senate, moving around the Senate floor and into the Capitol Hill conference rooms, he has become the key U.S. Democrat as of June...
Johnson is important because the Democratic Party must make its record in Congress, mostly in the Senate. Primarily on this record will the Democrats face 1954 House and Senate elections. As the party's Senate leader, Lyndon Johnson believes that he and his party should be rope dealers: just deal out enough rope to the Republicans, and let them hang themselves before November 1954. But rope dealing can be a very tricky business, and not the least of Lyndon Johnson's talents has been his ability to keep Democratic feet from getting tangled up in the rope while...