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Word: 84th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Considering how well Harvard played without Nichols, it was not surprising that the Crimson continued to dominate possession after its substitutes took the field. Fairfield remained unable to generate offense as it watched Harvard’s Patricia Yau score a goal in the 84th minute after taking a pass from freshman Alexandra Conigliaro. Yau had an open net after Conigliaro recovered the ball when a Fairfield defender dove too soon...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sheeleigh’s Double Makes It Three Straight Wins | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...Lethem spoon-feeds the reader tropes from contemporary literature instead of developing anything uniquely satisfying, rendering “Chronic City” otherwise insubstantial.The novel begins as Insteadman’s meets one Perkus Tooth, an aging, roving-eyed rock critic and strikingly disparate figure whose hovel on 84th street provides the setting for much of the rest of the story. Tooth serves as the wellspring for the paranoia that motivates much of the book, and brokers Chase’s introduction to the other major players, Oona Laszlo and Richard Abneg.Chase and Tooth shortly develop a fast...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lethem's Novel proves 'Chronic' | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Things get crazy at BARBARA BUSH'S 84th birthday party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

After the 2008 turnover, Tester was only 84th in seniority, so he and his staff spent two months following hallway gossip about which offices would be getting scooped up. Back in January, the dream was that they'd get Joe Biden's office, but Judd Gregg took that, and Bob Casey took Gregg's. When Tester's draft day finally came, he looked at the dozen or so offices remaining, eventually deciding, after three trips, on Mary Landrieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving On Up: The Senate Shifts Offices | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...they went on and on about Gordon the darling seven-year-old. Mrs. Graham had been the one to keep him (with Marshall off fighting and his wife dead) so you can imagine the wonder she allowed herself in discussing the boy. She had just come to the 84th retelling of the failed riding demonstration she’d done for Gordon (“the brass quintet should mostly heal, but our horse will never go near another trombone”) when she suddenly shut up. Her violent stare moved the rest of us to turn and gape...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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