Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albers has done bright and glossy studies in sandblasted glass. To make his patterns, Albers put together sheets of laminated glass of different colors and blasted his designs from the top plates, allowing the underplates to show through. Albers also worked with plastic, and the engraving called "The Tight Rope" shows his particular talent at its best...
...over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation had come to know as the silhouette of greatness. Prime Minister Winston Churchill scowled as he emerged from the Queen Mary, took a firm grip on the rope handrail and eased himself across a gangplank to the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Navesink in New York Harbor. Once safely on board the cutter, he politely doffed his hat* to official U.S. meeters & greeters...
...giving himself a little more rope, Zoll is free to attack many more people, like President Benjamin F. Wright of Smith. Wright has never had any connection with an "officially designated subversive organization," but he has opposed the recent Mundt bill, requiring registration of all Communist party members. Therefore Zoll feels free to call him a "reducator." The government-sponsored Federal Theatre of the '30's evidently sounded like a fine subversive title to Zoll, so he found a teacher at Sarah Lawrence who had belonged to it and tacked her on to the list. One of the "reducators...
...first bus went off the trolley when it tried to go around a double-parked truck. Its trolley pole flew up and broke the rope connecting it with the back of the bus. While a policeman climbed to the roof of the bus to pull down the pole, two more busses tried to pass, broke loose, and stopped...
Tastes: Does not smoke; weaves rope belts which he gives to friends; dabbles in astronomy for fun; saws wood to keep in trim...