Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injured workman had just stepped from a ladder when his foot slipped on the icy bark. Witnesses said that he landed on his feet...
...midnight they burst out, captured two guards. At 1 a.m. they forced the guards, at gunpoint, to give the "all's well" signal. Meanwhile, they improvised a ladder from scraps of wood, belts, bits of rope and a necktie. But it was too short to breast the prison wall, too flimsy to support their weight. By 4 a.m. three other guards had been captured. At 5 a.m. a general alarm was sounded...
Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby made two changes in his lineup, which he will keep intact against the Cardinals. Corneal replaced Grayson Murphy, who has enlisted in the Army and Levinson displaced Martin Hechscher on the challenge ladder...
...slopeline system. Sometimes a pilot can see only one line of lights and he does not know which one. At the crowded instant of transfer, the angled lights play tricks with perspective. Pilots landing safely but in a trembling sweat have reported that they saw the lights as a ladder plunging toward the earth...
...flakes and is used mostly on dramatic shows, where it is scattered over a scene from "snow drops" (rotary drums) that are suspended over the set; and 3) a foamy snow spray, also plastic, that is released from an aerosol bomb by a stagehand standing on a ladder, and is used for commercials and other short sequences...