Word: roped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shot from a Cannon. Compared with a bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping...
...Denver, Wegner never even got to count one. The luck of the draw gave him Bull No. 89, a cream-colored crossbreed that had never been successfully ridden. Grasping the rails of the chute, Wegner gingerly eased himself onto the bull's back and began to wrap the rope around his hand. The angry animal chose that instant to leap 4 ft. straight up, 10 ft. forward, and dig its front hooves into the dirt. Wegner flew headfirst over the horns ("like he was shot from a cannon," said one awed spectator), and as he lay gasping...
...Texans have made life miserable for their elected officials by demanding tickets to all the packed inaugural events. "I'm at the end of my rope," said one Lone Star congressman, "but if I don't help these people, there are probably enough of them here to defeat me for re-election...
...forced by her backward comrades to live alone in a huge hole in the sand by the seashore? Weekly, they lower her enough water and rations to survive in her ramshackle hut. When a young school teacher-amateur entomologist (bugs) happens along, they let him (Eiji Okada) down the rope ladder for her (Kyoko Kishida...
...downtown Washington this year. Within 80 miles of the city are: Shawneeland near Winchester, Va., which had 78 skiing days even in a winter when the natural snowfall was only half an inch; Skyline Ski Area at Washington, Va., which has three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double-track slope; Strudel Run at Braddock Heights, Md., with four slopes and a T-bar lift. The more avid drive four hours to the Homestead Ski Area at Hot Springs, Va., or Deep Creek...