Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House phaeton coasted down a ramp to Washington's Navy Yard wharf. The top was down, the bulletproof glass windows up. On the back seat were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in white linen suit and a Panama hat, Eleanor Roosevelt in white, and handsome, sad-eyed Crown Princess Martha of Norway, in mourning for her cousin-by-marriage, the late Duke of Kent, her severe black dress and hat relieved only by a double strand of gleaming pearls...
...damaged boats is handled in the shop which is located on the west side of the Boat Club. Many a wounded scull has been repaired there, but the story is told of one eight, whose remains can still be seen in the Boat Club, which ran up the ramp into the shop in a fog and got sawed in half on the buzz...
...left of the lobby a wealth of medieval manuscripts fill a well lit, spacious Exhibition Room, so arranged as to illustrate the spread of printing across Europe. On the other side of the Lobby is the Reading Room, open only to students. From here a ramp leads into the heart of Widener's stacks, but a push-button at the librarian's desk can shut the bridge off from ineligibles. Behind the librarian a book-elevator goes down the stacks...
...Regiment stiffened slightly; the flutter of programs stopped. Midshipman Isaac Campbell Kidd Jr. marched quietly up the ramp, saluted smartly, grasped his commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox...
...Look around and see if you can find a good field to land in," radioed Major Mace, with soothing professional calm. There was no reply. "What's your position?" the Major asked, with less calm. A puzzled voice came in his earphones. "I'm on the ramp in front of Hangar C, right here at Randolph Field...