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Symbol of the grief was an unperturbed lad of 19 with an English name, Thomas Williams, who had lived in mediocrity and who died (by the rope) in glory, saying he died for Ireland. By the murder of a Belfast policeman last Easter Sunday morning, Thomas and five friends, said to be members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, commemorated Eire's Easter Rebellion...
...Dream. In Manhattan, Vincent Newman perched on a fence, a rope around his neck, told police he hoped to fall asleep and hang himself...
...destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
...leader, in this queer obstacle race, was a big black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...
...success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...