Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Craig climbed up the ladder of routine peacetime duty from Haiti to China, acquired the reputation of a steady, thoroughly professional soldier. His first wife was an invalid for a dozen years; during those years, Craig spent all his spare time at her bedside. He rarely appeared at officers' clubs. She died in 1943; he got the news just as he was about to go into battle at Bougainville. He married again in 1947, has become a contented homebody. Of an evening, he likes his wife to read to him from the poems of homespun versifier Edgar A. Guest...
...Puerto Ricans had also done better than anyone expected. Nine out of ten had found jobs. The percentage of Puerto Ricans on relief, authorities estimated, was now no more than other bottom-of-the-ladder groups, e.g., the Negroes...
Three of the cleaners started sweeping and dusting along the aisles. Wizened, stoop-shouldered Claudio Aguilar, who works on a neighboring farm, went to work on the pulpit. After a while, he stepped down, dragged over a ladder, and climbed to the pulpit's top. He explained later: "It was dark, but I had a feeling that I saw something in the corner. I put out my hand and felt something-I began to tremble." At Claudio's cries of "I see it! I see it!" the others rushed over to find him holding the greenish-black stone...
...cheers of spectators, the three with milkshakes, a store broom, and a ladder proceeded to extinguish the burning awning...
...lynching party stood him up on a box, roped him to a telegraph pole and told him to jump. He refused. They kicked the box out from under him and the rope parted. They grabbed him, put a ladder against the pole, forced him up, strung him up again and yanked the ladder away. George wrapped his arms & legs around the pole and hung on. But George eventually got tired, and the lynching was a success...