Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more lagging moments to an agreeable conclusion. Miss Hull is Vita; she loves her brother Elwood but that pooka has been scaring away all her guests. She tries to deposit Elwood in a straight jacket at Chumley's Rest, so she can forget the pooka and climb the social ladder with her niece, Myrtle. Naturally, she too becomes attached to Harvey before the affair is over...
...geometry, and had to leave the Academy. But Courtney Hodges was going to be a soldier, and an officer, if he could contrive it. A year later, he laid down his job in a grocery store in Perry and enlisted as a private soldier. It was up the ladder from there on-corporal and then sergeant in the 17th Infantry, and then a chance for a commission. Sergeant Hodges had turned into a hard, determined student. He won the competitive examination for a second lieutenancy and was commissioned the year after his old West Point classmates...
...German general sat on the iron ladder inside the sugar refinery and stared at his black polished boots. From behind the stilled forms of the factory machinery a score of German officers peered questioningly at him but he gave no sign. There was no motion around him save the wisps of smoke that curled up around his bowed head as he puffed pensively on a fat Manila cigar...
...crowd that packed the avenue from buildings to nearly midway of the road was a crowd of every kind of people. One woman, at least 70 years old, stood atop a ladder twelve feet above the sidewalk. Others climbed trees, peered out from windows and roofs. Perhaps not since Bastille Day had the people of France celebrated such a victory...
Handsome, 50-year-old Don Moon, fourth in his class (1916) at the Naval Academy, served on a battleship in World War I, made his way quietly up the naval ladder between wars. In 1942, as commander of a destroyer squadron, he helped support the landings on North Africa and was officially cited for "exemplary conduct" and "leadership under fire." For Admiral Moon, as far many another officer, the invasion of Normandy was the high point of a career. He played his part with precision and assurance...