Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respect the lecture was pathetically revealing. It was the spectacle of a man on the tight rope of his own confusion; of the vertigo; and of the mutilated ethics. Robert Layzer '53 Michael Mabry '53 Donald O. Stewart '53 Irving Yoskowitz...
...quickly surrounded by jubilant searchers. A rope was lowered down inside; after 16 hours of imprisonment, Roger was snaked back up to the top, extracted like a cork from a bottle, and put back into circulation. Shaky, but full of honors, he retired to his parents' four-room frame house and recounted his adventures...
...guards and ocean waves the walls at Mexico's Islas Tres Marias prison camp, a trio of tiny, sun-baked islands about 70 miles off Mexico's west coast. The 1,072 inmates sweat out their lives in dazzling white salt pits, tend henequen fields and weave rope. They live in straw-roofed huts; there are no iron bars, but escape is next to impossible. In cells at Mexico City's Black Palace Prison, coldhearted murderers weep like little children at the prospect of banishment to the Three Marys...
Jerusalem, holy city of three great religions, is dying from strangulation. The rope around its neck is the barbed wire which separates Jew from Arab, the New City from...
Once, years ago, when he still indulged in his favorite sport of mountain climbing, Alcide de Gasperi careered downward when his rope jammed. "I found myself dangling over the void," he said later. "For 20 minutes I could not move. People in the valley could see me just hanging there. Then I swung over to a ridge and I was safe." Italy's 71-year-old Prime Minister no longer climbs mountains, but his talent for hanging on has become one of the most awesome political feats of the postwar...