Word: 84th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such issues call not for statesmen but for mass-mind readers. Top party strategy is still important, but it has to be custom-tailored to fit hundreds of special situations in hundreds of districts. From the sum of all this cutting and trimming and pinning will come the 84th Congress...
Mirken, who had to quit the freshman track team because he gets leg cramps when he has to run fast, beat out Harvey Popell who was 84th, Bill Chrisman who was 88th, and Lon Pates who was 99th...
...very different, isn't it?", another's hopeful sigh after the final Amen, "Is it really over?" At least among his choristers, familiarity bred delight. As one young singer burbled after the music was over: "Wait till you hear tomorrow's program. That 84th Psalm- it's terrific...
...spritely elders were still on the go. Former Vice President John Nance Garner left his home in Uvalde and took to the hills of southwest Texas to celebrate his 84th birthday with a deer hunt. In Washington, Clark Griffith, owner-president of the Washington Senators, celebrated his 83rd birthday with some 180 friends and fans, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. Griffith's birthday wish: to see his team win another American League pennant (it has won three since he started as manager in 1912) before he retires...
Health Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last summer by parachuting into the Hudson River, was still muscle-bent on proving his favorite adage: ''This business of growing old is all nonsense." His plans for celebrating his 84th birthday next month: a trip to England and a parachute leap into the Thames...