Word: roper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedian told ancient jokes to try to keep tension down as the crowd awaited the biggest rodeo event in years: a matched roping contest between two champion lariat handlers. The stakes were $3,700 in cash, a share of the bets, and undisputed claim to being the best calf roper in the world...
...first, trail-driving cowboys practiced the art on range steers, but so many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump off his horse, wrestle the calf on its side, loop three of its legs with a "pigging string," and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" hitch...
...fact is, as a recent Roper survey sponsored by Michigan State University shows, that an overwhelming majority of the people are still very much concerned with the fallout protection program. The survey showed that 68% of the people polled backed a program for including shelters in the design of large new buildings, 77% were for converting suitable rooms and basements in schools and hospitals into shelters, and 86% favored the Government's marking, stocking and equipping existing shelter areas in large buildings, subways, corridors. Will the U.S. be attacked in the next 20 years? Fifty-two per cent thought...
...game the then-mighty Harvard Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud, proclaiming "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half time the 'Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD." There was an explanatory crossline: "HELD BREATH TOO LONG...
...various German emigre political groups in London; and indeed it is from his war experience that he derives much of his interest in modern German history. He returned to New College to teach, and to discover that many colleagues of his generation--Alan Bullock, A.J.P. Taylor, H.R. Trevor-Roper, for example--were reoccupied with the same problems, and for much the same reasons. The result was "a great revival in Oxford of historical study--a new interest in the whole field," and, of course, the founding of St. Antony...