Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was time enough. While the diversions went on, seven prisoners were making a dash for another section of the wall at the northern corner of the yard (see diagram). As usual during routine operations, the tower nearest to it was unmanned. The men erected a makeshift ladder crudely fashioned out of iron water pipes stolen from the prison's plumbing. Frantically, the men scrambled up the ladder and wiggled under the 2,300-volt electrified barbed wire that ran 18 in. above the top. At about that moment, all of the phones inexplicably went dead in the prison...
...ladder had already been concealed on the western side of the yard. When the diversions began, Ray and the six others started moving toward the wall, and it was all over about as quickly as it began. At week's end prison officials were still not sure what had caused the phones to go dead at the critical moment...
...male dorm, and natural selection took a heavy toll: either you learned to like beer and Monday Night football or you perished from sheer loneliness. So Carlo sipped his Budweiser and learned to hate Cosell, but all the time he wanted to be cruising up the social ladder after some debutante, wearing topsiders and down vest and talking like a Cabot. The problem was, he stood in the middle of the battleground...
...rungs in Richard Nixon's ladder to success were made of human beings. After listening to his answers the other night, I feel certain he would like to construct another such ladder...
...ahead of schedule. The blue and white, three-engine Tupolev 154 taxied to a stop on the tarmac some 200 yards from the main terminal at Madrid's Ba rajas Airport. After a brief delay, the doors opened and a frail figure in black descended the forward boarding ladder. At exactly 7:54 p.m. last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years...