Word: 2nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain Billy Morrison who was nicknamed "Porky" because he weighed 180 pounds in 6th grade, and who had worked as a bouncer at the Safari Beach Motel, which was the sin center for every spring vacation college-riot-party-guzzle ever since sixth grade (he threw out some 2nd string tackle from L. S. U. in 1963, the year they still had Paul Dietzel and the Chinese Bandits) yes, Patty, the sad-eyed girl, tough Southern dark-haired, drink away the blues, hard luck Patty with the Green Buddha whose stomach she rubbed for good luck every time she left...
...June 2nd, nine days before he was to graduate, the CRR "regretted" to inform Bob Cox that he could not graduate and must withdraw from Harvard for one year...
...Blum used to earn $30,000 a year selling securities for Hallgarten & Co. Now he grosses that much as the bearded and bead-wearing proprietor of Old Stuff, San Francisco's most exclusive junk shop, which he bought in 1969. His inventory runs all the way from a 2nd century Roman glass vial to a vintage 1955 rubber Donald Duck. "My days are enjoyed as a merchant of funk," he boasts. "What I like about it is selling tangibles instead of intangibles...
...2nd District, Illinois...
Dying in a Spartan jail in the year 500-and-something B.C., the hero of this sharp and provoking little antihistorical novel finds no difficulty in giving verbatim quotations from the Dryden translation (17th century A.D.) of Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus (2nd century A.D.). It is true that he is a certified Seer of Apollo, and the future drifts before his eyes as effortlessly as the past or the present. So the reader need not be really surprised to find Lycurgus (spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure...