Word: 33rd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...33rd President of the U.S. seems, at first blush, an unlikely practitioner of this secretive art. "Give-'em-hell" Harry made plain speaking his trademark; he spared few enemies, in or outside politics. When Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume panned a singing performance by Margaret Truman, the letter sent by her enraged father made headlines. But H.S.T. was not always as impulsive as his public tongue-lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire...
...embraced contradictions as he ran like an Ivy League halfback through an archetypal American life-full, frustrated, tragically short. He knew everybody, did everything. His life was a passionate sonnet scrawled on a Wobbly poster-and when he finished the poem he died, in 1920, three days before his 33rd birthday. Jack Reed: artist-adventurer...
...Willie Randolph home run, the New York Yankees captured their 33rd American League pennant yesterday, capping a three game sweep of the Oakland A's with a 4-0 win in the Oakland Coliseum...
...dream came true. When the game was resumed in Pawtucket last week, it took only 18 minutes to finish. Koza hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 33rd to drive across the winning run. At least 13 records were set in the game, and Koza's bat (he was 5 for 14) will be enshrined at Cooperstown, N.Y. Said Koza: "I guess this is the only way I'll make it to the Hall of Fame...
Then, at sunset, the next day's observance began, this one in joy rather than sorrow. The day of mourning was followed by the festive Independence Day, this year marking the 33rd year of Israel's existence as a state. Jerusalem's King George Street was closed to traffic as young people linked arms to dance the hora and began the celebration. Some of the merriment lasted through the night with springtime abandon...