Word: ropewalk
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...literary part of Diaspora, it is by no means an unqualified success. College literati generally ropewalk their readers over deep pits full of slobbering metaphors and toothless symbols--all juicily anticipating being able to gum us to death down below. The freshness of youth too often translates as poetry into tired old cliches, because students usually have a naivete about what has come before...
...Majesty's Service, this time a taste of commando assault training, the Tarzan and ropes course. "He doesn't lack for fitness," allowed a Royal Marines' spokesman. Prince Charles must have blanched, however, when commanded to negotiate a 20-ft. high tree-to-tree ropewalk. The whole adventure was clearly one he would just as soon never try again. Said he: "A most horrifying expedition...
Some time this year the Navy will close the coffee-roasting plants it started in 1858 because it was not satisfied with the quality or cost of commercial coffee. It will put on a stand-by basis the Boston Ropewalk, a cordage factory it opened in 1834 because good rope was not available commercially. The Air Force is now contracting with private businessmen for 50% of all maintenance of engines, radios, etc., v. 21% in 1952. Government motor pools are being dried up; in San Antonio the Fourth Army has started using public taxis and buses for most official business...
...Such nonessential activities drain off men and money that could better be used for the defense of the nation. But cutting back almost any Government activity brings protests from Capitol Hill. For example, Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy has already protested to the Navy against shutting down the Ropewalk, on the grounds that it is necessary to the "national interest." In the huge, amorphous layers of Government, not even the experts can calculate how much money has been saved to date by the get-out-of-business campaign. But the most encouraging thing to businessmen is less the money...
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