Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...
Actually this year the clapper was stolen early, too early for an enterprising group of freshmen who made the dangerous ascent to the belfry only to find it gone. Not really knowing what the quarry looked like, they took the most mobile 'thing left--the mechanism of the clock. Without clapper, works or hands the Nassau Hall tower could neither strike the hour nor even point the time. This was not the first time however, that something other than the clapper had been tampered with. Back in the nineties freshmen upturned the bell, poured boiling water...
There is every evidence that women have not been made happy by their ascent to power. They are dressed to kill in femininity. The bosom is back; hair is longer again; office telephones echo with more cooing voices than St. Mark's Square at pigeon-feeding time. The career girl is not ready to admit that all she wants is to get married; but she has generally retreated from the brassy advance post of complete flat-chested emancipation, to the position that she would like, if possible, to have marriage and a career, both. In the cities, she usually...
...Auden and Christopher Isherwood are co-authors of the play, which is subtitled "Where Is Francis?" They also collaborated on "The Ascent...
...such a hierarchy, mediocrity makes its own rules and sets its own image of success. And the path of ascent itself is as likely to be administrative duty as creative work...