Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman came up the Renown's ladder, the Stars and Stripes was broken out alongside the Union Jack at the mainmast. The bosuns piped shrilly. King George VI, in his uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, stepped forward, gave Harry Truman a hearty handshake, said: "Welcome to my country, Mr. President...
...callus at the base of the left little finger indicates a stone cutter, who braces his chisel with his little finger. Other characteristic calluses: the house painter's on the front of both shins where he leans on his ladder ; the trumpet or tuba player's near the tip of the right little finger, where the finger presses against a small hook to steady the instrument; the writer's (or student's or bookkeeper's) on the side of the right middle finger; the French horn player's in the corresponding spot...
...From then on, Bill Jeffers' career reads like the biography of most railroaders, who miss few rungs on their way up the gritty ladder. He was a switchman, yardmaster, trainmaster, division superintendent, general manager and assistant to the president. In the tough, hard-working game of railroading he was tougher than anyone else, and worked harder. If his authority was questioned, he frequently settled the argument with his iron fist. Once, months after the event, he decided that a Chicago hotel manager had insulted Mrs. Jeffers. Bill Jeffers walked into the hotel and floored...
...White climbed the ladder, the Takasago's grinning captain held out his hand to help him aboard. He wanted to cooperate fully in the search, he said; he was on 'his way to bypassed, isolated Wake Island 300 miles to the south, to evacuate 960 sick and 14 wounded Jap soldiers. He offered his visitors coffee, tea, cider, sake and whiskey-all declined by the Americans...
Thus did 19-year-old Marta Skavronsky, orphan daughter of a Lithuanian serf, climb the next-to-last rung of a ladder rising from a peasant's hovel to the throne of Russia...