Word: rung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bestseller, the film is laid in an unspecified "cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting that the trial be held...
Beefy, jovial Howard Simpson, 57, is one of the nation's few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department. He started as a clerk with the Central Railroad of New Jersey and hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up to assistant general passenger agent. He joined B. & O. in 1931 and started grooming for the presidency a year ago. Said Simpson: "I plan no changes just for the sake of change...
...usurper, to personify law & order. Belatedly, from a hideout in the mountains, a brave follower of the Shah's, General Fazlollah Zahedi, onetime Senator, proclaimed himself Premier. He had royal decrees from the Shah, he said, dismissing Mossadegh. As recently as a year ago, Teheran would have rung with the news; now it caused no stir...
Psychiatrist Cathcart noted that the death rate from coronary attacks among psychoanalysts has been much higher than among doctors generally. "Recent statistics indicate that bartenders share the top rung of the mortality ladder with the analysts . . . Both are dealing constantly with the frailties of human nature and are witness daily to hostility in naked form, but are forced to restrain themselves . . . from taking issue . . . The incidence is low among manual workers, but the wives of laborers are more often affected than their husbands. The difference may be due to budget or family problems...
...Dawdled all the way back from bridge, talked to sunbathers, caught crabs, trailed one foot in the water--all to make sure that I cinched the bottom rung. I figure no one can shave 30 minutes any closer than that...