Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came fertilizer and seed, and a pair of bullocks. French got regular reports from CARE: when the first crops were harvested, when the first houses were completed, what special problems came up. Korea's winter is too harsh for farming, so French bought a machine to make straw rope for the village to use and barter. New Chorwon called it The Graham French-CARE Straw Rope and Bag Factory...
...close enough to be able to touch the trapped man's shoulder but began to gasp for air, had to be pulled up fast. On being revived with oxygen, Peters said: "I'll have another go.'' This time he managed to tie a hemp rope around Moss's chest. Slowly but strongly the rope was pulled taut, and Neil Moss moved 18 in. upward, then got stuck fast again. His breathing stopped, and the rescuers had to slacken their chest hold until respiration started again. Another man, John Larson, spent 1½ hours unsuccessfully trying...
...your recession, Bolivia would be going through the happiest period of its history." Then he looks around at his office's portraits of two recent Presidents, one a despairing suicide and one hanged by a mob, and adds morosely: "The man sitting here always feels the rope around his neck...
...your superb story, "The U.S. on Skis" [Feb. 9], you say that the first rope tow, key to the U.S.'s ski boom, was installed at Woodstock, Vt. in 1934. The first rope tow was installed there in March 1933, and was the invention of Douglas Burden, the late Thomas Gammack, and myself...
...Reader Henry's original tow consisted of an ancient Chevy, a tripod of two-by-fours and a length of rope. The Chevy, reduced to three wheels, sat at the bottom of the hill and provided the motive power. The rope ran around the car's tireless rear wheel, up the hill, around the fourth wheel which was mounted on the tripod, and back. By the following January, the tow had been refined by the addition of idler wheels and the substitution of a Ford tractor as power...