Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...multitude on two fishes and five loaves of bread?" One of the chief weaknesses of church boards, according to Adman Pleuthner, is that they have too many bankers, lawyers, doctors and retired businessmen and too few "sales managers, advertising men, and active business executives on the way up the ladder of success." What's wrong with the bankers and lawyers? They "achieved success by having people come to them for help and not by going out and selling their services to people who needed them...
...help at hand, dozens of dazed and bleeding survivors hurried off by themselves, like wounded animals, to make their own way to hospitals or homes. For minutes the tangled wreckage lay on the tracks as though it had been lost and forgotten, with only the roving flashlights of ladder-carrying householders to reveal glimpses of its horrors...
Cambridge firemen answered the automatic alarm by sending 15 firemen, the 78-foot hook and ladder truck, one pump truck, and two emergency cars. The firehouse is located 100 yards across the street from Thayer...
Early in his freshman year, the Yalie starts competing with 100 other yearlings for top handholds on the Eli ladder of success. Competition is the heart of undergraduate life. One out of every three students "heels" strenuously for hard-won posts on the Yale News, the athletic manager hierarchy, or even the Student Laundry Association, in eye-blearing competitions that often demand 70 hours a week. The word "heel" perhaps refers to that part of the clothing most evident as the heeler hustles down streets selling ads, rushes through New Haven collecting bills, and bends over to swab floors...
...horns that echo in tombs during initiations, the awsome initials OTIRUNBCDIFT on the Skull and Bones catalog, and the Wolf's Head water bill-highest in New Haven--these are likely to attract the most callous student. Yet most students do not heel their way up the extra-curricular ladder for the sale goal of "going Bones," or at least they say they don't. The six tombs are more important as the extreme result of the Yale credo of success, and as an exaggerated example of it. For the spooks' philosophy is that the world can best...