The player in the best shape each year is rewarded with a garish leather belt specifically designed by Top Rope Belts in North Carolina to resemble a professional wrestling accessory.

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Then he tied the rope to the top of the tree and Gary tied the other end to the winch on Mr. Pagoda's tow truck.

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For a less strenuous hike close to the guesthouse, there is an excellent tree-top canopy walk along a series of rope-and-plank suspension bridges 15m above the ground.

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Still, investors have at least shown some willingness to give the top two U.S. automakers some rope as they execute their turnaround plans, bidding shares up in recent months.

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His older brother, Scary Gary, who had already been in trouble with the law, had made him climb to the very top of a reedy Australian pine tree with a rope between his teeth.

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That, at any rate, is the belief of the Faeroese hardy and tenacious folk whose favourite delicacy, puffin chicks, can only be procured by dangling on a rope hundreds of feet below a sheer cliff-top and robbing the nests of unfortunate seabirds.

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At the top of each pitch, he pulled up the slack in the rope, fixed it to the anchor and started climbing again, while I used mechanical ascenders to get to the station and put him on belay as fast as I could.

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The seam between sleeve and the top of the suit lay flush with the rest of the arm, with no rope or ribbing underneath to hold it up.

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