Word: 49th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stone edited the Washington newsletter, I.F. Stone's Weekly, from 1953 until 1971, when he joined The New York Review of Books as contributing editor. "I always wanted to go to Harvard," Stone wrote in 1969, "but I couldn't get in because I graduated 49th in a class...
During a trial run, the mailboy missed a turn and went crashing through a men's room door. Now he has a regular office job-delivering and picking up letters on the 49th floor of Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower-and should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused...
...went as Conductor Milton Katims and the Seattle Symphony brought culture to the arctic climes of the 49th state, where music normally comes only from records, radio, TV or walrus-skin drums. Never before had any major orchestra visited the Alaskan bush or the treeless tundra. Never before, in all probability, had any orchestra's itinerary been such a travel agent's nightmare-covering 11,000 miles by plane, boat, bus and snowmobile to give 36 concerts in six days. The Seattleites were able to do so by splitting up, for much of the tour, into seven chamber...
...least 100,000 fewer people than showed up for the Woodstock festival. Given these statistics, a Long Island-based ecology group called Aduntusan-a Cherokee word for "earth spirit"-has developed the idea of organizing 350,000 young Americans of voting age to migrate north to the 49th state. The newcomers would settle there, gain political control through their voting power and, among other things, ensure that the Alaskan environment is never damaged by oil companies and land developers...
...will fight until I die or until all the North Vietnamese are driven back North," twenty-year-old Nguyen Chet, a support soldier in the 49th, Artillery Battalion, remarked, making certain others around would hear his words. Chet has not yet been to Laos...