Word: 41st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough-riding Willie Hartack, who bounces in the irons like a novice riding for his life. But both clowns kept their minds on their work: Nadir finished an easy two lengths in front of R. D. Prewitt's Terra Firma, and Willie set a new record with his 41st stakes victory of the year. Cash to Hancock...
...President Whitelaw Reid upstairs in 1955, younger brother Ogden ("Brownie") Reid took over the ailing paper with the titles of president, publisher and editor. Brownie Reid, Yale '49, brought with him a $2,250,000 insurance company loan on the 20-story Herald Tribune Building in midtown Manhattan (41st Street) and an ambitious two-year plan for a "lighter, brighter" Trib...
...pitching when he beat the Chicago Cubs, 8-0, to win his 18th game of the season; he struck out only five men. But he had the same corner-cutting control that has kept him up among the National League's best pitchers for 13 seasons, and the 41st shutout of his career gave him a league record for lefties...
Hussein, like his people, is a figure caught between two worlds, and inside himself plays out many of the conflicts which rend the Middle East. He is the scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms...
...time the copy is copied and further simplified to reach Union Square in an $8.95 version, every stenographer will be muttering about that old thing she is wearing, and every loom from Massachusetts to Alabama, every Manhattan sewing machine and cutting table from 25th Street to 41st will be humming merrily to the tune of her discontent...