Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpened the individual's ability to think effectively, graduate training should speed up his usefulness and help him move up the ladder of responsibility faster and further. For many men, particularly these of ability, drive, and a real desire to move to upper levels of responsibility in finance as in other areas of business, graduate training may well be worth the considerable investment required.Professor Charles M. Williams...
Explaining the expected election standards, Dunn said Pete Edelman's Yardling ad "for crudity, lewdity, stewdity" was "as low on the ladder as we will let go by, the nadir." He insisted that material has "get to be clean enough not to offend women and parents...
...blast destroyed eight window panes and drove splinters of steel and glass into the walls of the room. Twelve fire engines and 30 policemen converged on Matthews. Rescue operations were delayed when the fire department placed its ladder up the wrong side of the building...
...Dmitry Shostakovich has been up and down the ladder of official Soviet approval. In 1936 his opera-Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was considered "neurotic" (its heroine committed murder out of boredom rather than in the interests of social progress) and was banished from Moscow. During the war his Seventh and Eighth Symphonies were, in effect, official Soviet masterpieces, although non-Soviet ears found them pretty thin stuff. But the Ninth got him into hot water with the party's Central Committee in 1948 (it "smelled strongly of the spirit of modern bourgeois music...
...placid given one, The Marchioness of Heronden (Serena). Since this part is played by Lynn Fontanne and since the author is Noel Coward, the playgoer can settle back with complacence. The play may be several rungs down from Wilde, but it will be on the same satirical ladder...