Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piatigorsky, despite his three losses as number one on the unbeaten freshman team, "has the strokes," according to freshman coach Corey Wynn, to become a major collegiate star, and Woodbury is not far behind him. Schwartzman, ranked seventh on the pre-season ladder, was burdened with laboratory commitments and could only play doubles in a few matches this year; if he has more time next spring, he could help a lot, while Smith, improving steadily, was playing at number eight by the end of the year...
Primary piece of equipment used to combat the fire was a high pressure fog system which pumped water under 800 pounds pressure. The two ladder trucks were in order to open skylights...
Behind a tiny row house in Baltimore, a boatman scours his homemade runabout with steel wool, oblivious to neighborly wisecracks ("Where you gonna get two of every animal, Henry?"). At Cleveland's Yachting Club, a big woman in small slacks mounts the ladder of a cruiser, hoists a heavy box of tools, inches into the cabin to repair the head...
...chagrin in going to a second choice college there was fifteen years ago," MacDonald pointed out. "There are Harvard faculty with children in colleges they would barely have heard of a few years ago. In the prep schools, the Harvard reject goes off to a school slightly down the ladder along with some other Harvard rejects...
...Communism is paradise! The people's communes are the ladder to heaven!" proclaimed the tattered signs nailed to the masts, but the words carried a special irony for the fishermen who manned the fragile junks. Last month 1,000 of these junks had sailed into Macao harbor from Red China, their crews and passengers ostensibly bent on celebrating Chinese New Year in the 6-sq.-mi. Portuguese province. As usual, the men swarmed ashore to jam the smoky teahouses and to try their luck at fantan. But when the long holiday was over, less than half the junks sailed...