Word: roped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private death, leaving too few scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope up, Cearley, who was not using his ice ax, lost his balance and slid away...
...Rope, A Tree...: The small but vocal contingent of Crimson fans who traveled here to watch Harvard play Virginia in their semifinal contest were not the only ones who questioned some of the calls the officials mad throughout the game...
...resorts -- prompted in part by long lift lines and the high cost of lift tickets as well as the thirst for adventure. "What they don't realize," says Dale Atkins, who forecasts avalanches for the state of Colorado, "is that once they cross under that quarter-inch rope, they've gone from a safe, managed area to the wild unknown of Mother Nature...
...tight rope that a manager must walk when dealing with a divided council does not make anybody's life easy," Healy said...
...army is dangerously riven: its rank and file fear that its leaders will cut and run into comfortable exile, leaving subordinates to face the people's anger. Aristide too suspects the army is bargaining in bad faith, but he is cooperating because there is no other way to rope the Clinton Administration into supporting his cause...