Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, were two letters Thorpe had written to Scott on House of Commons stationery; he called Scott by such endearments as "Bunnies," and signed "Yours affectionately, Jeremy -P.S. I miss you." The prosecution told the jury of nine men and three women that as Thorpe "climbed the political ladder, his anxiety [about Scott] became an obsession and his thoughts desperate." At Thorpe's instigation a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 31, was offered $20,000 to carry out the killing. Thorpe, it was alleged in pretrial testimony, characterized the plan as not much worse than doing away with...
Pompan, who is a dead ringer for Starsky the TV detective, often uses his clownishness at appropriate moments. On the spring trip, at a time when intra-squad rivalry for positions on the varsity ladder was particularly tense. Pompan established a "humor ladder" and arbitrarily moved teammates up and down the ladder according to how funny he thought their jokes were...
...takes on real drama. Recently, when LOGICS operators learned that an Exxon tanker was due to call at the Colombian port of Buenaventura, where marauders in small boats are common at night, a message was quickly dispatched to the ship's master: "Beware bandits and double watch. Raise accommodation ladder and lay out high-pressure hoses...
Judson wisely avoids such hyperbole. Even a generation after molecular biology's birth, its midwives are usually experimenting with nothing higher on the evolutionary ladder than the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Judson's characters are not primarily interested in great practical payoffs but in a grand intellectual quest: solving puzzles, under standing nature rather than dominating it. The game is science for science's sake...
...There were only four black Ph.D.s in economics last year," Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government said. "Getting a Ph.D. instead of going to law school and climbing the social ladder can be a traumatic experience," he added...