Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From where I sat the Admiral wore in with hatches battened for a gale, carrying a reefed mainsail. He dropped a kedge at the caucus room door, and rode up into the eye of a gentle breeze, and backed his mainsail. There he delivered a walking ladder of ranging shots, reloaded and waited for the enemy to reply. The shells of the unified command in Europe and the Pacific Ocean areas were laid into his rigging...
Speech has been recorded before, but no one could actually read the wiggly groove of a phonograph record or the uneven ladder of a movie sound track. The various sounds which combine to form human speech were too jumbled up. Bell's new apparatus takes the sounds of speech apart and prints them at different levels...
...Meade L. Bricker, 60, to the all-important job of Ford production boss, to replace Ray Rausch, Bennett protege (Rausch was shunted down the ladder to handle "new construction"). An oldtime automan, Bricker first went to work for Ford in 1904, left, then came back again for good in 1914. When World War II began, he was given Ford's toughest pro duction nuts to crack - antiaircraft guns, plane motors - and finally, Willow...
Tomato Surprise. In Newark, an alarmed inmate of the Ivy Hills Alms House summoned four fire engines, a res cue squad, and two hook-&-ladder trucks to a sunny field blazing with ripe, red tomatoes...
...Gave Spain's fat Francisco Franco another kick down the ladder (see INTERNATIONAL...