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Word: ladder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lower end of the ladder, John Fishwick, Jeff Secreast and John Heller all blanked the visitors from Hartford by 3-0 scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Breeze Past Trinity, 9-0 | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...dunking the poor schlemiel who swims out with the news of Antony's political marriage to Caesar's sister Octavia; Antony, Caesar, and Pompey carousing drunkenly on the eve of their battle, chucking each other off the raft with merry abandon; a broken, wasted Enobarbus sinking from his skeletal ladder into the shadowy waters, his body clutching at bones as it gently bobs on the surface...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Floating Shakespeare | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

Like the Industrial Revolution in England, the deeper you looked, the worse things got for the Lords, as the Crimson racquetmen at the bottom of the ladder dispatched their opponents with ease...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Racquetmen Down Amherst in Opener | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

Third-year man John Stubbs has a firm grip on the number three spot behind Havens. The former Milton Academy stand-out saw a lot of action last season at five and has moved up two rungs on the ladder this year due to the departure of seniors Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Face Amherst | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...like Secretary of State, trussed up in a chair and holds the weap on to the dignitary's head, while the pair reach a tongue-blistering stalemate on the accommodations of power vs. the demands of conscience. Two ideas have entered Doctorow's play on a double ladder of descent. Ennui, anomie - the catatonic state of buried lives - was summed up by Kierkegaard when he called despair "the sickness unto death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Party Pooper | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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