Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School has just finished installing a temporary wheelchair ramp at Rockefeller Hall. Acting Financial and Personnel Officer Jane Hill said the ramp will meet building requirements until a permanent ramp is built after the winter...
...soldiers marched through the nearby Dung Gate, one of the eight portals of the walled city, to a parking lot where they were to board buses for the trip back to the barracks. At about 8:15 p.m., two assailants quietly got out of a car and, from a ramp overlooking the parking lot, hurled two hand grenades down on the soldiers and their families. Amid screams and shattering glass, the 46-year- old father of one soldier was killed, and 69 were injured. Five Palestinian organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, including P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat's Al Fatah...
...almost enough to take one back to the days when Gerald Ford fell off a plane ramp and Americans began wondering about their President. Had he forgotten to wear his football helmet back in college? Could he walk and chew gum at the same time? First, Ford nonchalantly knocked a tape recorder off the lectern while making a speech. Next, he and Edward Bennett Williams crashed into each other as the Washington attorney was leaving the podium. Once when a plate smashed to the floor, Ford's spokesman Bob Barrett took the microphone to tell the room, "That wasn...
...room. I've been denying I'd run for President since 1967. But I'm mayor of Asti, Calif. (pop. 7), now. That's a stepping city to the presidency." Ford's former press secretary Ron Nessen has put together a film of Ford falling down the plane ramp, announcing the swine flu vaccine program, falling on the ski slopes, liberating Poland in the debate with Carter, and showing off his WIN (Whip Inflation Now) button. "The media got those things all wrong," chortles Nessen. "Take the ramp incident. There's Ford down on all fours. He was just doing...
...really is nice to have an ex-President give us this legacy," says the Chicago Tribune's deft cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, who harpooned Ford relentlessly. MacNelly has a long-hidden confession: "I was the only living cartoonist in Salzburg when Ford fell down the plane ramp. My only thought was 'Gee, I hope he didn't hurt himself.' When I got back to the U.S., every other cartoonist had had a field day. I never did catch...