Word: laddered
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...Hodgkin's orderly mind seems to thrive on a diet of clutter and clatter. After graduation from Oxford, when she went into research, her first lab was in a dingy basement under the university museum. It was her precarious exercise to climb a ladder to a gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule...
...bottom of the pit, a hundred feet down, stands a house. "You can spend the night there," the stranger says. Hand over hand the man descends a rope ladder. In the house he finds a peasant woman who gives him plain food to eat and a plain mat to sleep on. In the morning he rises early to be on his way, but when he looks for the ladder it is gone. "Please don't blame me," the woman says gently. "Remember, you came here of your own accord." He stares at her, incredulous. "Are you trying to tell...
...waste! He is dumbstruck. By what miracle could a common tub draw water out of dust? Day and night he ponders the mystery and its meaning. In the desert he has found water-can it be that in his fate he has found his life? He looks up. The ladder has somehow been left in place. He is free to go, but now he has no desire to depart. Instead he bends over the barrel, and in the clear mirror of the water he sees the creature he came seeking in the dry places. It is himself...
...dependent on a broad base for his support. He is doing a lot more talking on the objectionable features of his opponent's proposals than providing evidence of the soundness of his own. He was raised by immigrant parents and worked his way through school and up the ladder in the old tradition...
...Republican campaign against Kennedy has centered on three issues: that he is a carpetbagger, that he alledgedly sees New York only as a step up the ladder toward his Presidential ambitions, and that his election would ostensibly renew the strength of Democratic party bosses...