Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's shapely Mrs. Patricia McCormick, already winner of the women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...
...young U.S. hotspurs therefore decided to climb it. In 1950, for their summer vacation, they tossed away reason with their razors and hauled off to Peru as casually as if one of the highest unsealed peaks in the hemisphere were no more than a library ladder. What happened to them is described in The Butcher, by John Sack, news editor of the Harvard Crimson at the time, who tagged along as the expedition historian. "What started out as great fun," he truly relates, "turned into great adventure...
...creature of the Turks, who ruled India in the 13th century. His function was simply to skim off a fat slice (often 50%) of the peasant soil-tiller's earnings, keep a cut for himself, and turn the rest over to his superior on the feudal ladder. Under the Moguls, who followed the Turks, India's peasants were systematically exploited but rarely dispossessed...
...Drees is the kind of Socialist the Reds denounce as a "Sewer Socialist." They are right in a way, for Drees would rather give his people sewers today than promise a proletarian heaven in 1984. Starting 39 years ago as a Socialist councilman in The Hague, Drees ascended the ladder to power, reform by reform-always carefully administered, of course, and with a thrifty eye on the budget. In World War II, Drees was imprisoned in Buchenwald for a year, then served as a member of the underground directorate which the Dutch, with stolid inspiration, called the Board of Reliable...
...grew so fast that in 1949 Pillsbury opened a new plant. Last week Pillsbury's rewarded Paul S. Gerot, 49, the crack salesman who had put over the quick mixes. It made him president. Gerot, who came to Pillsbury fresh out of Northwestern University and swiftly climbed the ladder as a salesman, succeeds Philip Pillsbury, 49, who moved up to board chairman after 12 years as president. His father, John S. Pillsbury, 74, moved out of the chairmanship and became "honorary chairman...