Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anne Boleyn's Psalter-the one she carried to the scaffold- was stolen from Hever Castle-in Edenbridge, England, by burglars with a sharp sense of history. Other purloined items: Husband Henry VIII's signet ring, Queen Elizabeth's prayer book...
Thanks. In Chicago, while Mason James Anderson hurtled groundward from a 14th-floor scaffold, Coworker Philip Walsh twirled a rope, lassoed him in midair, deposited him on the sidewalk practically unhurt...
Another tall boy, 6 ft. 9 in. George ("Scaffold") Mikan, last week reached a new height: he became basketball's highest paid player. After scoring an impressive 1,870 points for De Paul University as an amateur, Mikan signed up with the Chicago American Gears, an industrial team, to play for pay. Mikan will continue to study law at De Paul, will grind for the Gears twice a week, and hopes to collect $60,000 in five years...
...rude scaffold stood in a Philippine cane field near the old Japanese torture camp of Los Banos. In the early morning (3:02 a.m.), under the glare of three floodlights, Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit -the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur...
Indestructible Man. In Chicago, Charles Anderson, slightly injured when beaned by a block from a scaffold, was forthwith flattened by a passing motorcycle...