Word: 10th
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Religious pilgrims were the first to come here, in the 10th century. In more recent times, golfing pilgrims have flocked to St. Andrews to pay homage to a stretch of weather-beaten land on the edge of the North Sea where the game was invented 600 years ago. When they set off down the first fairway of the Old Course into the prevailing wind, they walk with heads bowed...
...hope I've rescued women from wearing a naff dirndl skirt and corset at night.' ?John Galliano on his 10th anniversary at Christian Dior
...looking at all sectors of the European economy, including high-tech and heavy manufacturing. Thomas Rosenthal of the Italy-China Foundation says there are now 27 Chinese companies doing business in Italy, and that China has jumped from the 33rd largest foreign investor in Italy in 2004 to 10th...
...just because millions have one doesn't mean it's not an extravagance. Watching a tanker pump 30,000 gal. of water into an empty pool at a cost of $1,200 gives new resonance to the phrase "pouring money down a hole." Yes, that's less than a 10th of the water that the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle holds, and we opted for vinyl and stamped concrete instead of Hearst's glass tile infused with gold and 17th century Italian bas-reliefs. Still, throw in a fence, a heater, a motorized cover and a filter pump that runs...
...questions about love and life. Consider The Woman in the Fifth. Harry Ricks, an American academic, loses his job and his marriage over a disastrous fling with a student. He flees to Paris and ends up living and working illegally in a squalid corner of the immigrant-filled 10th arrondissement. He meets a beautiful woman, but she will see him only a few hours a week at her apartment in the tidier fifth arrondissement. Then people who have wronged him start having "accidents," and he begins to suspect that the woman he loves is not what she seems...