Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
...series of etchings, and the entire ballet is conceived in this spirit. In six scenes we follow the downfall of the young Bake, splendidly danced by Alexander Grant. Especially incisive and brilliant were Brian Shaw, as the Rake's Dancing Master, and Ray Powell, as "The Gentleman with a Rope," an inmate of a London madhouse...
...Mountains provide heavy snow covers and a varsity of open and wooded terrain. Black is served by a 3500-foot Alpine lift which brings skiers to trails for the novice as well as the expert. At nearby Thorn there is a 4,000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows. Thorn has been improved with the widening of the practice slope and the addition of a new expert trail...
...certificate was a likeness of the balding, bearded Dr. Warren. At either side was a grotesque dangling skeleton. At the bottom was a drawing of a surgeon, performing some sort of abdominal dissection upon a corpse with instruments faintly similar to oyster knives. The slashed end of a hemp rope dangled from the edge of the table. The other end of the rope was still fastened in a noose about the corpse's neck...
...most famous editorial campaign was directed at the condition of the Yard dormitories, not one of which "can make the least pretense of being fire-proof . . . What then are the facilities offered for escape? . . . The flimsy wooden staircases can certainly not be relied on for egress, and the single rope in each suite of rooms is of such character that more than one person would find great difficulty in reaching the ground without a broken neck...