Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paso, Plumber Bruce Steele, 72, got married for the 17th time, explained: "Can I help it if I appeal to women...
...even the winner, Austria's Trude Beiser Jochum, had much fun. The U.S. team skidded and slithered into a disastrous series of pell-mell spills. Andy, after one half fall and a daredevil jump ending in a ski-tangled pileup, led the U.S. squad but finished a sorry 17th out of 43. Her sense of humor still intact, she said with a grin: "I guess we're the crash and burn team ... I made a great jump-right off the course." This week Andy had only one to go, her favorite : the special slalom...
Writing in the 17th of a series of newspaper articles serializing his recently published book. "I Led Three Lives," Philbrick declared that the Party's "Pro-group" or elite, "the vanguard of the vanguard," was composed of a number of "surprising personalities." "Culture," he stated, "simply oozed out of out Pro-group; graduate and honorary degrees were a dime a dozen...
...there any hope for the men of the Flight? Picard has no answer, except his own faith. Concluding, he tries to express for his century what Francis Thompson said for the 19th, George Herbert and John Donne for the 17th, and the Psalmist centuries before.* Writes Max Picard: "Whithersoever they may flee, there is God . . . Ever more desperately they flee, but God is already in every place, waiting for them to come...
Gehrmann and Wilt consequently are a promoter's dream. They always run a good mile race, and the public loves it. Last Saturday, the 17th installment of their series of mile races took place in the Boston Garden to the delight of 13,000 avid track fans. The race went perfectly according to script. Wilt let one of the lesser known runners set the pace, moved out in front after the quarter mark, and then tried to run away from Gehrmann. He failed just as he had failed the night before in Philadelphia, and 15 out of 16 times during...