Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha; Rochester). Last week, with his .309 batting average making up for occasional fielding lapses, the Cardinals' Kazak was one of the leaders in 1949's "rookie-of-the-year" race...
...march once had to be diverted from the laboratory by 20 gallons of flaming gasoline, Beebe firmly maintains that the jungle was as safe as a church. During the three years, 1945, 1946 and 1948, he experienced nothing worse than a broken leg -from a fall off a ladder...
...Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...
...spirits in sharp contrast to his sober farewells to George Marshall. He joshed photographers, shook hands all around, posed with all comers. Standing next to Acheson, he saw Vice President Barkley- drive up, announced briskly: "Here's the Veep," and pumped his hand. At the top of the ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What did you say?" he asked, then turned to look for French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. "Hey, Bonnet...
...clock of the appointed morning just as the refugees from Paris' nightclubs met the first milkman in the streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick in front of a receiving set which had been...