Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief target of the bureau's new service will be the jet stream itself, which is generally found around 30,000 ft., sometimes blows faster than 230 m.p.h. The jet stream is not easy to keep track of; it snakes and thrashes around like a whipping rope, changing both speed and altitude. A jetliner that gets into its core may arrive at its destination hours ahead of schedule with its tanks still heavy with unburned fuel. But judging by the experience of Air Force pilots, whose jet bombers have been flying the unfamiliar highways of the upper...
...wages of distraction make their appearance in no uncertain terms when Shimizu attempts to deal with the figure. In Wind Child, Rope Jumper and Red Mantle, the walls come tumbling down. Here are problems which cannot be sidestepped. Rope Jumper epitomizes the situation. Against a sensitively painted background Shimizu has superimposed a figure which does him no credit at all. It is coy, purposeless and arbitrary...
...showcases," does not feel that anti-Communism is a creed for men to live by. "Communism should be fought, but the Church cannot be defined as anti-anything. It approaches people simply as human beings." In India, a religiously sophisticated nation, conversion is never a matter of "trying to rope people into the show, and a sense of God is taken naturally by the Indians," according to Newbigin. The main growth of Christianity is now taking place in the villages, by word-of-mouth rather than organized preaching...
...Rope and Chains. It was not that the Prime Minister had gone unduly democratic. Always the courtly squire in the artistocratically rumpled suit, he responded to crowds with a wave that seldom took his arm above his shoulder, and they liked him for not trying to be what he was not. Accompanied by his Lady (who is a daughter of the late ninth Duke of Devonshire, and showed herself pleasantly old-shoeish), Macmillan neatly dodged political questions, mumbled his way through a string of "Splendids," "Jolly goods," and "God bless you alls." Instead of putting people off, his very proper...
...Alpine Club following his return in 1953 from Nepal. After a dry series of appropriately dignified ceremonies, Hunt and his fellow climbers were whisked away to a Left Bank nightclub. As the lights dimmed, out trotted a pride of chorus girls "absolutely nude except for a climber's rope that bound them together and which was tied in a series of knots not immediately familiar to me." Struggling toward an imaginary summit, the girls suddenly yipped a victory cry. One of them hoisted a small British flag as the band brayed God Save the Queen. "It was all delightful...