Word: laddered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...noise of the first crash traveled two miles north to the Alphabet City firehouse that is shared by Engine 28 and Ladder 11. In good humor as always, Mike was sitting in the front office joking with guys changing shifts when the computer spit out the white slip of paper summoning Engine 28. The six men of Ladder 11 suited up and waited for their slip. Michael Cammarata, 22 and still living in his parents' basement, dialed his father. "Tell everybody I'm all right," he said. Lieut. Michael Quilty, the senior officer on the ladder, called his wife...
...debris into 5-gal. white buckets. Mike picked through body parts and shoes and paperwork, but to him the most disturbing finds were the countless tools stamped F.D.N.Y. He and his Engine 28 colleagues were on a special mission as they dug: to find their six housemates from Ladder 11 who were among the missing...
...handicapped-parking zones on Mount Everest. Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to reach the 29,035-ft. (8,850-m) summit. A good athlete, he turned to climbing after losing his sight as a young teenager. The trek required him, with the help of his team, to negotiate ladder bridges over bottomless crevices and ascend a peak that kills even the most able mountaineers...
Even more motivation for the Crimson is the ladder-shuffling that has occurred already this season. With the coaches moving players into different spots between the Brown and Cornell matches, teammates have been jockeying for position among themselves...
...inward-looking and self evaluative. B.J. Greenleaf, in yesterday’s column, “Network Aversion,” identified the Harvard approach to social connections as Rolodex building. It’s much more difficult to see someone as a rung on the ladder to greatness after you’ve taken out thirty bags of garbage together...