Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dash Up. Getting ready for Salcantay, blond Marcus Broennimann, 28, a mining engineer, and leathery Felix Marx, 48, a foundry technician, bought 1,600 ft. of rope, feather-lined suits, three tents, sleeping bags, canned milk, chocolate, dried fruit and special concentrated food. At the mountain city of Huancayo, they loaded the gear and Broennimann's plump bride Susan into a pickup truck, and drove 530 miles to ancient Cusco...
...their size (in area, Finland is the sixth largest country in Europe; in population it is the third smallest). Under popular, 81-year-old President Juho Kusti Paasikivi and able, unpopular Agrarian Premier Urho Kekkonen, the Finns have learned to walk the nerve-racking path of independence like tight-rope walkers...
Attempts to escape were punished with the utmost severity conceivable to the commandant: they were denounced as "discourteous." And a British general caught hanging over the wall on a rope was reprimanded by the guard who spotted him: "No, no, my General! Please...
Toronto stock pushers who have been operating by mail and telephone to take U.S. suckers for an estimated $50 million a year in phony gold and oil stocks neared the end of their rope last week. The Canadian Senate ratified a change in its extradition treaty with the U.S., making such fraud an extraditable offense. No longer protected by the border, blue-sky stock peddlers can now be arrested in either country and tried where the buyer was actually bilked...
...wakes up every morning at about 6:30 for coffee in bed, takes a quick look topside before a breakfast of orange juice, eggs, toast and more coffee. The first day out he spends the morning making a stem-to-stern inspection, in which the smallest Irish pennant (loose rope end) or stubble of beard will catch his choleric...