Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tells of the cold, calculating efforts of Rose Answell to push her unambitious husband Ian up and up in the Tory government. From a minor secretaryship in Agriculture ("He loved the Pig Scheme and he never had to make a speech") gentle Ian is thrust up the Rose-rigged ladder to the very verge of Minister of State for Colonial Affairs-where, abruptly, he rebels, resigns, retires to pig-farming and smashes his marriage. Author Gellhorn is working here in rather tired soil...
...painter hung up a sign saying, "Decorating by George T. Smith, 1309 Clifton St., N.W.," and left for good. But who was George Smith? And who had sent him? The supervisor of repairs, who had once noted that the painter was violating safety regulations by standing on a ladder (rather than a window jack), did not know; nor did the principal or any of the teachers. Finally, the Washington Post decided to find...
...assumption was that somebody had made it clear to scholarly, impatient Jim Gavin that he had written off his chances of becoming Chief of Staff. Certainly his career-had been headed in that direction. Born in Brooklyn, he climbed steadily up the brass rungs of the Army's ladder since the day in 1929 when he pinned on his shavetail's bars at West Point. General George C. Marshall tagged him as a comer early in World War II. He served with distinction as General Matt Ridgway's deputy commander, jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division...
Yale and Dartmouth, with Sonny Howe and Dick Hoehn at their first singles spots, will provide very strong opposition for the varsity's captain, Larry Sears, and Yale and Princeton should be quite strong well down the ladder this winter. Depth may be the deciding factor in the Ivy League race this year, and it looks as though the Crimson might have the depth to regain the titles which it lost last winter in a stunning weekend of losses to Navy and Princeton...
...father, Richard R. Riss, 54, who founded the family-owned corporation in 1930, got out of the presidency in 1950 to turn to other pursuits (real estate, cigar business, oil leases). University of Kansas-educated Bob Riss, who once said candidly, "It's much easier to climb the ladder of success if your father owns the ladder," took over the presidency at 23, decided to withdraw after his self-made, hard-driving father began stepping back in to make more and more of the decisions; he will remain as a director and substantial stockholder. Now facing the elder Riss...