Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something else Crime-Buster Kefauver said that made Democratic ears stand out. Philosophizing about morality in government, he said: "The ordinary course of a man up the political ladder in the United States is by successive steps from the locality. Ordinarily, he takes an interest in his county, or ward, or city election, perhaps seeks office there, and then may or may not proceed to the state or national level of office and politics. In the locality, however, the moral tone of his later service - as Governor, Senator, Ambassador or President - has usually been set . . ." That sounded like a slap...
...hook and ladder trucks reached the quadrangle within a few minutes, and quickly had the fire under control. By 8:15 the dormitories were declared safe. As residents of both dorms went in to breakfast, however, some girls expressed regret that they had been rudely awakened for so small a fire...
...smart lawyer named David Marcus for two years appealed the case up the ladder of the higher California courts. Most of the judges attacked the brutality of the arrest, but, conforming to California precedents, upheld the conviction...
...presidential office was Harry Ashby DeButts, 56, a topflight operating man who has spent all his business life with the Southern. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute (1916), DeButts went straight to work with a pick & shovel on the tracks, hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up. In 1937 President Norris made DeButts vice president in charge of operations...
...writers pay a good rate of comic interest: rapid-fire gags, uproarious burleyque bits such as those that enrich Broadway's current Top Banana, and an oldfashioned, helter-skelter movie chase in which Hedy drives a fire truck through old Tangier with Hope perilously clinging to its raised ladder...