Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minority group, and therefore shouldn't sound off about being the "foremost champion of human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims, or a measuring stick for popularity and good...
...busy week for Ben Miller. On Monday, he punched the bag, skipped rope and shadowboxed through the day in a Times Square gymnasium. Tuesday, he tried out for parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
...nightmare. The first is crossing Massachusetts Avenue on the way to the Houses. The tunnel height suddenly becomes three feet thanks to the shallowness of the Rapid Transit below; the traveler must hoist himself up a ladder and onto a rickety wooden cart, pulling himself across by a rope. Below rumbles the Rapid Transit, and above, the Massachusetts Avenue traffic...
...just reached the stage of throwing away his crutches. Then, all of a sudden, he is told that he has to climb a further mountain. He will go out and do all he can, but that will not be as much as before the accident. "He needs a stronger rope and a friend's arm to make the necessary effort...
This week a distinguished gallery in London was holding a Picasso show with special fanfare. Reason: Pablo turns 70 on Thursday. Picasso himself, avoiding all the todo, was hard at work in his studio near the French Riviera, fashioning a sculpture of a girl jumping rope. Said he: "I am not going to celebrate...