Word: roped
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There she was, yet again, this time in Rapid City, S.D. This time her name was Margaret Dinock, but she was part of a national Greek chorus, haunting the rope lines of every candidate in every Democratic primary this year. As almost always, she was middle-aged and working class, with a desperate tale to tell, usually about health care. And this time, in classic Hellenic fashion on the last day of the Democratic primary season, she offered narrative punctuation: a gray sweatshirt with a picture of a vehemently orange car screeching to a halt at a highway barrier...
...tuck this week fro France’s present cabinet. Threatened by a possible breakdown in the Tunisian discussions, facing a withdrawal of his essential Independent cabinet support, and harassed by a police demonstration, Premier Felix Gaillard has so far managed to keep his position on the Parliamentary tight rope. But if his ministry falls, many commentators envision a possible collapse of the Fourth Republic...
...resemble a real minefield ready to be cleared. Dozens of 100-square meter (1,076 square feet) plots are demarcated by markers and strings, red perimeters signify areas of dangers, while green marks the safe zones where the handlers stand, connected to their rats by a rope pulley system. The mines buried here are dummies, already detonated but still containing the traces of TNT that the rats have been trained to sniff...
...giant, knows a tough competitor when it sees one, and when it sees one, it attacks. So it surprised no one that as Under Armour announced it would try to revive the long-dead cross-training category (which basically describes shoes you can use to run, lift weights, jump rope or channel surf), Nike pounced. The company launched its SPARQ trainers--as the company puts it, kicks built for Speed, Power, Agility, Reaction and Quickness--a month ahead of the May debut of Under Armour's Prototype Trainers...
...vivid memories derive from the inconsequential acts of my childhood: spending all day picking through clovers in an attempt to find a lucky four-leafed sprout, or saving up whatever spare change I could find in the corners of my house in order to buy that brightly beaded jump rope. György Dragomán’s novel, “The White King,” newly available in a translation by Paul Olchváry, shows that he feels the same way. Dragomán explores the dynamics of a violent and unstable society through...