Word: ropes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running around. Within a period of three hours, I got squirted with water, pinched by an incipient Lolita and hit in the back with a rock-hard, organically grown orange, which strayed from a ball game. Unsupervised by adults, kids of all ages did incredible gymnastic feats on a rope strung between two trees. In the main room of a green bungalow, the school's chief structure, four girls and a boy strung beads to be sold at a fund-raising fair, while two girls did mathematical crossword puzzles and talked ("Do you know it will cost...
...Lynching Rope. Rather than risk more calumny, says Hansberger, "we'll never go to a spot of natural beauty again. The situation is just too emotional." Well-intentioned conservationists-and some groups that merely want to bar entry to all newcomers-may force other big corporations to avoid projects in ecologically sensitive areas. Ironically, the effect of their withdrawal would be to leave second-home development in the hands of the shoestring operators who created most of today's mess. So long as U.S. population and incomes keep rising, more people will be seeking a home away from...
...stalactites, stalagmites and a massive bed that stands 80 feet from the door. For Fanatics there is also a miniature petrified forest in which to frolic. The Round Room, designed without a single corner, features a circular bed with translucent chiffon panels above. At the pull of a silken rope, the panels part, revealing a skylight view of the stars. The Polynesian Room offers a ten-foot hammock, the Arabian Room a floor-level bed surrounded by mirrors and 1,001 pillows, and the Psychedelic Room, decorated in screaming reds and oranges, is equipped for light shows...
...cure his patient, but rather to turn him into a Frankenstein character, playing on the patient's own death wish. The patient runs into the audience, and when cornered by the doctor's son and his own wife, escapes by swinging from the top of the theatre on a rope, crashing through the scenery, and bringing the play to a close...
...come for your dog," they say, and Dukey, who had been lying quietly in the corner, looks up. They go over and attach some rope to his collar, pull, and take him out the door. The pet we've raised from age six weeks to almost six months is gone. We'd wanted to raise a nice dog, so we'd never taught him to sic the men in the white suits...