Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...descends pole, puts ladder back in truck. Nobody working...
...ladder against pole. Others do nothing...
...friend and West Point classmate, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ike's Defense Secretary Wilson, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Major General Wilton B. Persons (ret.); and James Rowley, chief of the White House Secret Service detail. Ike swung up the ladder with a greeting to all hands, and at 5:55 a.m. his Constellation took off. Ten minutes later the press plane followed. Both planes carried double crews...
...what they will lead to." We also refer Mr. May to the Yale News cartoon "To Be or Not to Be" which appeared shortly before Tap Day in 1950. The cartoon showed a mass of scrambling Yale men ascending to a heaven labeled "secret societies" by means of a ladder whose rungs were "Activities ... athletics...fraternities...
...been made toward realism. From France there is a lifelike bulldog which shakes its head, opens its mouth and growls at the tug of a leash ($16.95). Ohio's Doepke Manufacturers has a 19-in. fire engine made to scale from the famed La-France, with an extendible ladder and a hose that shoots a 20-ft. stream of water ($15.95). But the ultimate in realism was achieved by Chicago's Marlin Electric Co. It has a 4-lb., battery-powered toy lie detector, about the size of a small table radio...