Word: doormate
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After all, here was an undefeated Crimson team that had just come off the most exhilarating comeback in its history, finally healthy after the returns of quarterback Neil Rose and tailback Josh Staph. And here was a perennial doormat that had finally strung two wins together—only to (in all likelihood) have them stricken from the record after the discovery of an academically ineligible player...
Penn sophomore Kyle Chaffin blocked a Big Green extra point attempt with 1:36 remaining in the game as Ivy favorite Pennsylvania (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) avoided a huge upset at the hands of last year’s Ivy doormat, Dartmouth...
Penn destroyed Lafayette 37-0 last week, beating them so badly that Tavani was relatively pleased with his team’s performance against Harvard. The Quakers looked far more mortal Saturday, however, barely edging perennial Ivy doormat Dartmouth...
...owned the Washington Post, but her husband was given majority control of the paper on the theory that no man should ever work for his wife. When she found the manic-depressive Graham dead of a gunshot wound in the bathroom of their country house in 1963, this "doormat wife" at 46 was thrust into running the company. Men in suits thought they would be able to wrest it from someone so crippled by anxiety that she practiced saying "Merry Christmas" before giving her first staff party...
That backstabbing, rule-breaking megalomaniac who would gladly use you as a doormat is less and less tolerated across a range of industries. "It used to be that aggressiveness--the Type A personality--was valued," observes Steven Berglas, author of The Success Syndrome: Hitting Bottom When You Reach the Top. "Our culture built a Ben Franklinesque doctrine: Hustle; don't lose a minute...