Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph B. Gates, director of Buildings and Grounds, said that the accident suffered by Radcliffe freshman Carmen E. Irizarry-Ramirez, while she was taking her fire rope test in the Radcliffe gymnasium during Orientation Week this year, had "some bearing" on the decision to replace the ropes...
Miss Irizarry-Ramirez suffered a broken vertebra when the rope which she was descending snapped and she fell nearly nine feet to the floor of the gymnasium. Miss Irizarry-Ramirez is out of the hospital and has been atending classes regularly...
...beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back to a firehouse, borrowed a ladder, climbed up two stories, smashed a window with his elbow, crawled inside...
...Bloch couple cavil at one another largely to disguise the monotony of their marriage; indeed, escape from boredom is a dominant motif in this Advocate. Miss Seager's prisoner braids straw into rope for nine pages; Fields' defeated heroine chain-smokes and walks those back-alley streets so familiar to devotees of the garbage-can school of prose; Porter's Margaret thinks of herself as "a character in an impossibly dull novel" (a self-interpretation which Porter threatens to actualize). This preoccupation with boredom strikes us as significant. We have heard that content must determine form...
...Argentine pampas, the only stock that most inhabitants have known for years comes live and fourfooted. But Argentine stock salesmen-the portfolio kind-know that back-country men have money too, much of it stashed away in drawers or secret hiding places. They have learned how to rope and brand it. When a securities salesman stopped his car outside a doctor's office in Córdoba province recently, an old man in rags stuck his head through the car's open window. "How much are the Ledesma shares?" he asked. The surprised salesman quickly quoted a price...