Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take It or Leave It. To walk the tight rope between private enterprise and government-and keep both happy-requires a delicate sense of balance. Levy has it. Speaking with an arresting German-Oxford accent, he can be as blunt in personal conversation as he is careful when it comes to delivering voluminous written reports for a potentate or an oil magnate. His ability to steer a middle course through the troubled waters of oil disputes has landed him as consultant in such hot spots as Suez and Iran. In 1959, he met privately with India's Prime Minister...
...complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
...denied that his wife's suggestions (extra bedrooms, a larger kitchen) had caused the inflation. "She made a few changes." said Brown, "but not $400,000 worth." Brown will ask the legislature for the extra money, but he still has a good many nights to spend with his rope. Said the Governor wearily: "We've tried to be good soldiers about this...
...England house, Author Eric Sloane found a wood-backed, leather-bound diary written in 1805 by a 15-year-old boy. Its entries were terse: "June 3-Helped Father build rope hoist to move the water wheel." or "June 26-Father and I sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm...
During the last years of his life, Finley said, Nock "became immersed in an infinite particularity of memory. His knowledge was not like a rope, but like a beach of sand...