Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Firemen arriving on the scene hurried a ladder over to the window of Admas House G-12, as flames visible from the street shot up toward the ceiling of the room. Breaking the windows with axes, the fireman doused the flames within five minutes...
...cell by cell") and even beyond Emerson's transcendental glorification to mull a final unknown: "Did Christ descend once and for all to no purpose, in a kind of divine and kenotic suicide, or ascend once and for all, pulling his cross up after him like a rope ladder home...
Young Eddie climbed the familiar asimilation ladder to professional status: City College, time out for World War II military service as an infantry sergeant in Europe, New York University Law School, a moderately successful private practice. He first got into politics during the 1952 Stevenson campaign. Koch served as a street speaker then, and again four years later, developing a style that is more haimish-homey-than sophisticated or rousing. A Yiddish lilt flavors his speech, and a phrasemaker...
Despite Colgate's revamped football program, Restic and his triad of major-domos have no regrets about forsaking Hamilton for the confines of Dillon Field House. As Horan put it, "In our minds as coaches, Harvard is a step up the ladder. It's as attractive to a coach as to a student. Year in and year out over the long run you're going to do better than at Colgate...
...ladder to start-dom complete, Tuke sees his football experience at Harvard as "very positive. I've gotten more out of it than...