Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose...
...ward machine in Kansas City's Italian section into a powerful and corrupt political juggernaut. He ruled Kansas City in its bawdiest, gaudiest era, hired ghost voters by the thousands, bet millions on the ponies, hand-picked Governors and Senators, started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder. Heavy-set and heavy-jowled, he was the incarnation of the cartoonists' political boss-especially when he wore a top hat. In 1939 he was caught red-handed with a whopping $430,000 bribe from insurance companies, went to jail for income-tax evasion. His empire crashed with...
...York Times's favorite sons last week took a step up the ivy-muffled Times ladder...
...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...
Five hours after the first wave of Army infantrymen dashed across the shell-pocked beaches, General MacArthur and his party filed down a ladder from the Nashville's deck into a landing barge. With him were men who had left Corregidor with him 31 months ago, like his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland; men who had been sent out later to hib command, like his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney; men who were going back to their homeland, like President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippine Commonwealth. There was-one notable absentee: Manuel...