Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard's coffee, stowed away in a box of rags and was shipped out. He made it to New Jersey, where he fell afoul of another stool pigeon. Back he went to Charlestown. Next, he and five others managed to sneak in some guns and build a ladder. The idea was to pin down the lone tower guard with gunfire and climb the ladder over the wall. Everything went as planned, except that at the key moment two of the cons jumped on the ladder and it came crashing down. "This was broad daylight," remembers Green...
Seen from the outside, through the eyes of Stilbourne's dim but eccentric characters, Oliver is just a bright boy with a small talent for music and a chance to rise on the "awful ladder" of the British class system by way of a science scholarship to Oxford. The boy views himself as others do-a mod erate success. It is only in the later episodes that he comes to see himself as Novelist Golding sees him-a moral failure. Sadly, he recognizes that he is one of those who would like to pay anything for a chance...
There were about 28 firemen on the scene, and a ladder truck and engine car were called from the Taylor Square fire house. The rest of the equipment came from the main fire station next to Memorial Hall...
Three fire engines and a hook-and-ladder raced to a Radcliffe dormitory last night to put out a fire...
Meanwhile, he moved steadily up the army ladder. In 1956, and again in 1960, he was sent to the U.S. for specialized military training. He put in four years as commandant of the National Military Academy at Dalat, a period that to this day continues to provide him with a reservoir of support among many middle-grade officers who look up to him as their teacher. His entree into politics came in December, 1962, when Diem assigned him to the command of the 5th, or Anti-Coup, Division, strategically positioned just north of Saigon. Thieu was put there because Diem...