Word: roping
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Center Jen Botterill received a pass from defenseman Jamie Hagerman at the blue line, sliced through a couple of Terrier skaters between the circles and found rope at 6:47 of the first period to put the Crimson ahead for good...
...when he found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle we've been through"--wrought from roots, animal carcasses, discarded wire, rope, tin, wood, carpet, plastic and house paint. Despite his compulsion to create, Dial had always been shy about his art. That changed in 1987, when collector Bill Arnett discovered Dial's work and started buying it up. Shows and commissions followed. Now Dial's art sells for tens of thousands...
...privates (myself among them, proud to say) are doing voluntary PT in the evenings, trying to impress the commanders at the next stop in their training. (Everyone else swears they'll start hitting the sweats any day now). As a company, we tear through the "confidence course" - walls, towers, rope climbing, etc. - with reasonable gusto. After all, we have only two weeks left, half of that reserved for the equipment-cleaning and paperwork of "out-processing," and there is only one real ordeal - three days' camping in the field - between us and the Exit sign...