Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the mails. There was something in the air that caused a middle-class homeowner in Burbank, a jar of olives in hand for his martini, not to close the door in the face of the earnest, shaggy McGovern canvassers but to wish them well. In Chicago's 47th ward, a housewife accepted a bumper sticker from a McGovernite. "I'm only a step ahead of poverty," she said. "The middle class gets nothing. You can tell McGovern that. But thanks for the bumper sticker. As soon...
...group was celebrating McGovern's 47th birthday at the Kimelman home in 1969 when they got word of Teddy Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident...
Seven protestors, including Helfand and Perkins, immediately took an elevator up to the 47th floor, where the office of Alastair Maitland, the British Consul, is located. The rest of the demonstrators, however, were forced to remain downstairs as security guards, realizing what was happening, shut down all the elevators...
...this month is Roberts' 47th book, an autobiography entitled The Call, which has already sold 30,000 copies. Disarmingly folksy, the book takes Oral upward from his grim days as a preacher's son ("I felt quite sure that Jesus lived with us because Mamma and Papa talked to him so much"), on a Pilgrim's Progress as it might have been rewritten by Horatio Alger. All the hagiographic basics are there: his mother's vow to give her child to God in return for the healing of a neighbor's child; his bloody bout...
...banks of Delaware's Brandywine River has exploded into a vast corporation that did $3.6 billion worth of business last year, and now ranks 18th on FORTUNE'S roster of the largest U.S. industrial companies. Du Font's base remains in tiny Delaware, 47th in population among the states. That disparity in size intrigued Economist Lewis Anthony Dexter, who studied the situation in 1963 and concluded: "The elephant takes care not to dance among the chickens." It also intrigued Ralph Nader, who feels otherwise. In a report released last week, a group of his Raiders argued that...