Word: 39th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century of Southern estrangement from the nation was over. A remarkable political journey-one that led in only two years from the red clay fields of south Georgia to America's highest office-was at an end. Jimmy Carter, at 52, was the 39th President of the United States...
Beyond all that, he has an apparently blissful marriage, a charming, attractive wife Marcia, 37, and an adopted daughter Amanda, who is two and whom he seems to worship. As he celebrated his 39th birthday last week, just eleven days before the release of his latest and perhaps most successful picture, he had every reason to celebrate. Why, then, as he sits down to talk on this fresh spring day, his office deliciously perfumed by a bowl of giant, sinfully luscious strawberries, is he so gloomy, so unhappy, so downright miserable...
...first surprise came in the contest between first seed Howard Sands and Eli Glenn Layendecker Sands, currently ranked eighth in the nation, faced 39th-ranked Layendecker, an opponent who had beaten him earlier this year...
...Spiro Agnew, the nation's 39th Vice President, pleaded no contest in 1973 to charges of evading $13,551 in taxes due on $29,500 that he received from influence-seekers while Governor of Maryland. Agnew paid $10,000 in fines and resigned, the only U.S. Vice President ever to do so while under criminal investigation...
Other states seem anxious to get in step. Two weeks after Brooks was executed, Massachusetts became the 38th state with a death penalty on the books, and Oregon seems likely to become the 39th, 20 years after capital punishment was abolished there by popular vote...