Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soirées, teaching a bit of Russian or Arabic to his fellow inmates, discussing world affairs, or philosophizing on the art of espionage. On that rainy night, the soirée was canceled: sawed bars and a nylon ladder attested to the fact that Blake was associating more freely outside the walls of Wormwood Scrubs...
...gravity when blood is returning toward the heart. Normally, most of the blood travels through deep, internal veins, which are tightly enclosed in muscle and other tissues. The rest of the blood goes through thin-walled surface veins. Connecting the internal and external veins, like the rungs of a ladder, are horizontal communicating veins. All these veins are fitted by nature with internal cuplike valves, which open rhythmically to let a certain amount of blood flow up, then close to make sure that none flows back...
Five fire trucks arrived at 9:25. The smoke had driven out 15 or 20 students from F and G entries and had attracted a crowd of almost 100. Firemen with gas masks pulled a hose up the stairwell inside while others propped a ladder outside against the window...
...other end of the ladder, there is Penn and Brown, who haven't made the first division in seven years. In the middle, you can pluck Yale, Cornell, and Columbia in any order...
Died. Roland Reynolds, 29, grandson of Reynolds Metals Founder Richard Reynolds, who was starting his way up the family ladder as an executive in the company's subsidiary Eskimo Pie Corp.; of head injuries suffered when he accidentally walked into the spinning propeller of a twin-engined light plane he was thinking of buying; in Richmond...