Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...
...CRIMSON of the fall of 1933, the football-playing president "appeared to be enjoying himself hugely." The president's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines in the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas "real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was elected to the American Alpine Club. A wrenched back and the Second World War put an end to his mountain-climbing expeditions but since the war he has continued as he says...
Field Test. In Durham, England, engineering students had it all figured out on paper that 20 men could outpull one elephant until Jumbo, a circus animal, ruined their calculation by pulling both students and teaching staff 20 dusty yards on the end of a tow rope...
...Helens, 170 miles to the south, Jessett and his wife heard the story from their son's three companions. Crossing a glacier at the 8,000-ft. level, Arthur had shouted, "I'm slipping!" and then dropped through a snow bridge. With him went their only rope. Two boys set out for help; the third stayed at the scene. From the depths of the crevasse, young Jessett shouted that his arm was broken. The hours dragged by. "The snow is getting me all wet," Jessett called. "My fingers and toes are going numb. Hurry...
Finally, the boys told the vicar, they found another party with a rope. One of them worked his way 60 feet down into the crevasse; that was as far as his rope would reach. He heard a groan from below and shouted; there was no answer. "There was light enough," he said, "but I couldn't see him. I think he was covered with snow." The boys had no choice but to go on down the mountain for the night. "If we could have gotten him out," one of them sobbed, "we would...