Word: 59th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days earlier, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had narrowly escaped death when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in her hotel at the seaside resort of Brighton, killing four people and injuring 32. On Sunday, the day after her 59th birthday, the Prime Minister attended morning services at the village church of St. Peter and St. Paul near her official country residence, Chequers. She left the services visibly moved. "It was a lovely morning - we have not had many lovely days," she said later. "The sun was coming through the stained-glass windows and falling on some flowers across the church...
...evening session. Among my recent predecessors, beginning with John Foster Dulles, only one, Henry Kissinger, had been subjected to more than a day of hearings. On Jan. 21, the day after the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan, the Senate voted, 93 to 6, to confirm my nomination as the 59th Secretary of State...
...Crimson dropped nine spots from last year's fourth-place finish, the best ever by an Ivy school. Kate Wiley, who earned All-America honors by placing seventh last year, fell to 59th place with a time of 17:52.4 over the 5000-meter course. Jenny Stricker, who also earned All-America honors last year for Harvard, has taken a year off to train for the Olympics...
Said Frederick G. Lieb, sage baseball writer: "It is doubtful if anyone in that crowd will ever live to see another baseball player hit his 60th home run in a 154-game season. I saw Ruth hit his 59th in 1921 and never thought I would score the game in which that record would be broken...
Harvard tied Stanford for second place with nine recipients each in the Foundation's 59th annual competition. Cornell was awarded the most, receiving 11. Two hundred ninety-two recipients were chosen from among 3571 applicants...