Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas first sent Tom Connally to Congress in 1917, and he arrived just in time to cast his first vote for the declaration of war against Germany. He moved up to the Senate in 1929, climbed the seniority ladder, and in nearly nine years as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee labored to translate New and Fair Deal foreign policy into senatorial action...
Last week, with Vermont's snows just beginning to shrink, Santo was busy in his backyard studio finishing a picture of Bennington's Baptist Church. In another month, he will exchange his canvases and palette for buckets and ladder. His big ambition is to sell enough pictures to be able to give up house painting for good...
...knew about other people, Gogol knew nothing about himself. After the tremendous success of Dead Souls, he had a vision of "Russia . . . turning upon me eyes full of expectation." He felt a sudden strength, and a longing to "climb that ladder." In his exaltation he began to wonder if his "great task" was not, after all, to save his generation. He took up a sequel to Dead Souls, in which he sought to illumine good as in the first volume he had exposed evil. His feet had left the ground; he could not push the work to completion...
These five will automatically receive top ranking on the ladder, with the rest of the team strung out according to their qualifying scores. These seedlings will be only temporary, however, as frequent challenge matches will take place during the remainder of the season...
...pair, a boy about ten and a 12 year old girl, cheerfully bombarded unfortunates below without disturbance for over 30 minutes. Cambridge police finally came to the rescue as a passing patrol car scared them off. The marksmen had attained their vantage point by climbing a ladder at the back of the store...