Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find jobs are earning less than $2,500 a year, and nearly 70% are earning less than $5,000. Says Richard Friedman, regional director of HEW for six Midwestern states: "Within a year or so, I expect we'll see these people begin to move up the economic ladder. They are a very intelligent, resilient, resourceful people." Many now work as filling-station attendants, messengers or office clerks. Tran Dinh Chi was once principal of a Saigon high school; now he earns $2.40 an hour as a part-time maintenance man in Michigan. Nguyen An Minh, formerly vice president...
...Masque of the Red Death and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, he made the horror story a respectable literary form. But only a handful of literary terrorists (Hawthorne, James, Chekhov, Gogol) wrote tales as eerily disturbing as Poe's. Only one (Franz Kafka) found the ladder to a deeper gallery of madness...
...THEATRICAL SUPERSTITIONS. I pride myself on not having any, none at all. I always deliberately walk under a ladder. I spout lines from Macbeth [supposedly a British actor's most terrible jinx], I don't give a damn...
...participation for all." Unless, of course, we take "all" to mean first and foremost all those who wish to compete at the intercollegiate level (and have the necessary ability), secondly all those who wish to compete at an organized intramural level, and leave to the bottom of the ladder all those who would like to be able to go for an occasional swim or play a pick-up game of basketball...
Sophomores Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon, senior Ted Humphreyville, and junior Scott Mead round out the ladder, with Dave Evans serving as the alternate. A team with a new look, yes, but with a familiar face calling the shots, and just check the record if you don't think that that makes a difference...