Word: ascent
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...critical point in last season's run of "The Sopranos," street boss Tony Soprano reflects on his ascent in the hierarchy of organized crime. After the departure of his conniving mother and the demise of an insubordinate underling, he sits back smugly and muses, "Finally, all my enemies are smoked...
...unrelenting drive and competitive ferocity that early on earned her the sobriquet la Guepe--the Wasp. Flessel-Colovic latched onto fencing at age seven after seeing French legend Jean-Francois Lamour on television. She abandoned dance lessons for the local fencing club--and soon began a victorious ascent through local and regional ranks. The promising southpaw didn't leave home for Paris, and intensive training, until 1990, when--at 19, far from family, friends and acquaintances--she fought off loneliness by pouring all her attention and time into fencing...
...leader of the new class, Ray began her steady ascent to the top of women's gymnastics as the history-making 1996 troupe retired one by one. At last year's world championships, the U.S. team finished a disappointing sixth, but Ray stood out as the highest-placed American gymnast in the individual all-round competition...
...nice job, and the audience went bananas over her. She's obviously well-loved among the GOP faithful, and she seems genuinely pleased by her husband's political ascent. By all appearances, Laura Bush is awfully good at being the wife of a presidential candidate - a gift she may have privately hoped would never see the light...
...ascent you have a clear goal ahead, and you get happier and happier as you keep pressing upward, one switchback after another. You overtake other climbers. You feel great. At a trailside shelter you run into teenagers weeping into an emergency phone. Two girls trying to convince a park ranger that they really, really, really, really can't go another step and need to be airlifted out. Two well-fed American girls in nice clothes, both ambulatory. One of them sobs in a well-practiced way, and if you weren't here to see her, you'd think...