Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gabriel Manufacturing Co., and made $150,000. Then he began to tinker with a shock absorber for autos. One day he was on a boat approaching a dock. As he now recalls it, his attention was directed by his secret partner "to a workman who was wrapping a rope around a pile, snubbing the boat." It gave him the idea for the first successful auto shock absorber, the Gabriel snubber...
...jerk of the 120-ft. nylon rope brought Dave up short, painfully bruising and wrenching his ribs, and dragged Jim, ax and all, to within a foot of the brink. An hour later, Dave dragged himself back up. He and Jim found a cave in a crevasse and spent the night there. The feet of both were frostbitten, Dave's so badly that when he rapped them with his knuckles "the sound was hollow and wooden...
Frozen Feet. It was Dave Harrah's voice, and it had a tale to tell. Dave and Jim had reached the summit by traversing an 18-in. snow rib that ran for about 300 ft. Coming back, they had stopped a moment-letting the rope that bound them together go slack-for Jim to snap a shot of the summit...
...Rope's End. In Washington, Marine Corps headquarters received a letter from 15-year-old Louis E. Lamprecht, who wanted to join up because "I'm sick and tired of unmilitary life...
...Tumble Down. Ninety minutes later, in high elation, they started down. Nightfall pinned them on an icy hogback. Broennimann slipped, the rope which tied him to Marx spun out and then broke, and he tumbled 100 ft. to fetch up in soft snow with a broken rib. In darkness, his feet beginning to freeze, he got back to high camp, where Marx rejoined...