Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...splash toward it, I went under again. . . . A score of others had the same idea. . . . Finally the motorboat tipped over, hurling us all into the sea.* I saw the black silhouette of a destroyer about 75 yards ahead. . . . I managed to propel myself forward and hang on to a ladder, safe, but so spent I couldn't pull myself up. At that moment a life raft drifted against the destroyer's side. It banged my head against the warship and I cried out time and again: 'Stop it. You're killing...
Dizziest part of the evening comes during the half hour before the regular performance starts, when Comic Frank Libuse runs wild as "head usher," people climb a ladder to reach their box, a horde of customers have to go through a Coney Island Crazy House (treadmills, wobbly stairs, wind machines) to get to their seats...
...limited liability made partnerships almost obsolete, except among lawyers, brokers, etc. Most of this year's reversions to partnerships have been small fry. Nor is General Motors likely to turn its 390,000 shareholders into partners under any kind of income tax. But at the bottom of the ladder the form of U.S. business organizations appears to be changing under the artificial stimulus of taxation...
Behind locked doors Harvard's "Verein Turmwaechter" lost its collective German accent in the excitement of being imprisoned in Lowell House Tower Room for nearly an hour last Wednesday night. A hook and ladder was summoned from the Fire Department, but its efforts were superfluous as the janitor of the building finally succeeded in battering down the hinges and removing the door...
...confusion and noise that resulted from the singing of German folksongs to insert a nail in the lock of the door, thus jamming it. The unfortunate victims, alarmed at the prospect of spending a night in the Tower, frantically summoned the firemen in the hopes that a ladder would extricate them from their embarrassment...