Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jump! Don't jump!" She stood there in the increasing heat in a long cotton housecoat and a pair of men's shoes and hopped from one foot to the other, frightened, ludicrous and heroic at once. A neighbor rushed up with an extension ladder, got it against the side of the building and started up. Then thick smoke and flame burst out of the windows below the woman. It drove the man off the ladder and enveloped her. She sank to the ledge and lay still. She was dead when firemen arrived, 30 minutes after the blaze...
Died. Edgar Byram Davis, 78, eccentric Texas oil millionaire, best known for his support of a famous Broadway flop, The Ladder, which he kept going for two years because he wanted to help its author and spread its message of reincarnation; of a heart ailment; in Galveston, Texas. Davis made a rubber fortune in Sumatra and got $12 million for the sale of his oil wells in Texas, spent his money lavishly on such items as $1,000,000 in bonuses for drillers and a golf course for his Negro servants. The Ladder became a favorite target for reviewers...
...erred not in war but only in love, when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
Whlie about 200 students watched, Cambridge firemen sent a ladder to the roof of C-entry, turned a spotlight on the building and ran a hose through the front doorway before discovering what had happened...
...Father Simon sneaked out of his parish without telling anyone what he was going to do. Billed as "L'homme planeur" (the gliding man), and scared stiff, he climbed the rickety wooden ladder up to the diving board and thought to himself, "What a funny idea you had to come up to this high perch!" Then, with a prayer to St. Teresa, who was to be patroness of the new chapel, he took off in a wild, unsteady swoop, kicking as he fell, to keep from landing on his back. He hit the water with a smash, and bobbed...