Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Presidents are only part of this unwitting conspiracy. Politics is now a drama of motion. The media love the exhilaration of nomadic statecraft. Anchors like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather climbed the ladder by breathless appearances at exotic summits from Beijing to Moscow...
Before he lost his job at Citicorp four months ago, Harvey Lewis had been dutifully climbing the corporate ladder for 25 years. He had joined the bank at 18 as a backroom clerk and worked his way up to assistant vice president, picking up his M.B.A. along the way. But his dream of reaching the top ranks ^ was dashed when Citicorp closed his New Jersey mortgage-banking office. "They even offered me a gold watch," says the father of five-year-old twins. "But I wasn't ready to retire." Instead he used part of his $65,000 severance...
...students, we are just the bottom of the academic brown-nosing ladder. In theory, we get concerned about the lack of academic freedom for untenured instructors. We feel that they should be able to say whatever they want without fear of repercussions when university committees decide promotions...
Ever time I write a paper, I step onto the long ladder of academic brown-nosing...
Gammons's set for Long Day's Journey stunningly evokes an abstract dream world. Mary's ladder leads to a very physical dream world of morphine in an upstairs room, but even the ground-level activities of this family take on a nightmarish eeriness. The backs of the four chairs are conspicuously unmatched and resemble the outline of a coffin. The set may be too aesthetically pleasing to fit Mary's description of her cheap home, but that in fact only increases our sense of her delusions...