Word: 30th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from a well-wisher at the Le Mans race track, he could have said, "That was Mother." But it would not have had quite the same cachet, so Mark Thatcher, 26, announced, "That was the Prime Minister." Midway into the grueling 24-hr, sports car race, young Thatcher, positioned 30th in a field of 34, suffered what he later called "a momentary lapse of concentration" while negotiating an S bend at 80 m.p.h. His Osella skittered crabwise across the track, bumped to a stop against a safety barrier and refused to start. Thatcher, who made his driving debut just...
...former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, 77, Georgetown University's commencement was old mortarboard. Lodge's honorary degree was his 30th. But it was novel for Arkansas' Bill Clinton, 33, the nation's youngest Governor and Georgetown's commencement speaker. Only twelve years ago, Clinton approached the same platform for his bachelor's degree. Adjusting Clinton's tassel before the ceremonies, Lodge also proffered some advice on graduation speechmaking: "You can't be too long, too heavy or too light...
Judges are often rapped both for being too leisurely and for moving too precipitately, especially in cases involving broad social issues. In an address marking his 30th year on the bench, Irving R. Kaufman, chief judge of the Manhattan-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, offered a defense of the jurist's craft...
...most prolific and versatile cover writers, treating subjects as disparate as the gay revolution (April 23, 1979) and Pope John Paul II's visit to America (Oct. 15, 1979). A profile of Ronald Reagan earlier this month brought his career total to 29 cover stories. With his 30th, this week's cover on President Carter's struggle to curb inflation, Church finds himself back in the business world, though some colleagues believe he never really left. Says Nation Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited the story: "George reads economic statistics with the gusto that other people devote...
Senior captain Vera Fajtova explained, "I just didn't ski that fast, finished around 30th in the slalom, and somewhere around there in the giant slalom...