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Word: 61st (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lying fields as a drifting fog that some men saw as gray, some as yellow, some as green."Thus did Historian Ralph Allen describe the deadly mist of chlorine gas that ravaged the Canadian First Division at Ypres in 1915. Last week, as Canada celebrated Remembrance Day-the 61st anniversary of the end of World War I-fear of another kind of chlorine gas attack forced the evacuation of Mississauga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fear of a Deadly Fog | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop will deliver a Morris Greg Reading of both her own work and Lowell's in Boylston Hall at 4.30 p.m. tomorrow, the 61st anniversary of Lowell's birth...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Saver, | Title: Harvard to Honor Life and Writings Of Robert Lowell | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

This winter Nicklaus took his time emerging from hibernation, as he missed the cut in the Hawaian Open and finished well back in the other events. The five-stroke win was the Bear's 61st PGA victory, which ties him on the all-time list with "the little colossus" Ben Hogan, behind Sam Snead...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golden Hours of The Golden Bear | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...private bill for Mrs. Camilla Hester of Foley, Ala. She is a widow who has been unjustly denied a federal pension because of legal complexities. The bill contained a couple of quirks that would establish bad pension precedents. The President felt compelled to reject it with his 61st veto. Mrs. Hester, who has been leaning toward Ford in this campaign, allowed as how she was "disappointed." She seemed understanding. But who knows how Mrs. Hester and her family will vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: No Place for a Man to Hide | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...Place the following in chronological order: A) French student worker revolt. B) Nixon's "last Press Conference." C) New York Mets World Series victory. D) Supreme Court ruling outlawing prayer in public schools. E) In the Heat of the Night. F) Roger Maris's 61st home run. G) Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed. H) Miniskirts. I) The Pill. J) Medicare...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

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