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Word: ladder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the Crimson ladder made light work of the MIT line-up, sweeping the remainder of the matches without losing a single game. At number two, John Stubbs breezed past Yusaf Maniya without breaking a sweat, while three man Chuck Elliott spanked MIT's Barry Nalebuff...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Snap Losing Streak; Crush Hapless MIT Squad' 8-1 | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...Anne Down slips off her stockings, sticks her rear end into the camera and slides vertically over Sean Connery into bed. Visually, this evokes a shot in Crichton's last film, Coma, where Genevieve Bujold slipped off her stockings, stuck her rear end into the camera and climbed a ladder. Crichton is a clever man, a Harvard graduate; those pretty rear ends may be his way of saying, "Shit on you, folks...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Nonelectric Trains | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

Harvard dominated the remaining six matches, sweeping through the lower ranks of the Williams ladder without dropping a game. The Crimson hope for similar results when they travel to Tabor Academy on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Racquetmen Prevail, 8-1 | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

JUANITA KREPS, who will turn 58 next week, is the first economist as well as the first woman to be Secretary of Commerce. She worked up the academic ladder to become a Duke University vice president, and has held a long list of corporation and foundation directorships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Catch-Up for Calculating Women | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...replied, "We hope it is." However, younger members deny that they made business contacts in the club and in the years of expanding membership, the club seems to have lost some of its reputation as an outpost of the "old boy" network, a place where socializing and climbing the ladder could be accomplished in the same afternoon or in the same conversation...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The New York Harvard Club: | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

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