Word: 85th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true importance of Greg Olson. Harvard's 85th captain, was something more...
After discussing strategy with Phalangist leaders over tea at Baabda's town hall, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon issued a call for Syria's 85th Brigade to withdraw from the Beirut vicinity and join the bulk of Syrian forces in the Bekaa Valley to the east. Damascus abruptly rejected the demand, insisting that unlike the Israeli occupation troops, Syrian forces had been dispatched to Lebanon as part of an Arab peace-keeping contingent in 1976 with the approval of the local government. Sputtered an angry Syrian official: "We do not, I repeat, do not tolerate ultimatums from that...
...Sometimes I use the time to sort out important issues," says Secretary of Agriculture John Block of his open-road hours as a long-distance runner. Ruminating and running, Block, 46, looked as cool as an Illinois-grown cucumber as he glided across the finish line of the 85th Boston Marathon in 3 hr. 6 min. 49 sec. Still, Block was well to the rear of Toshihiko Seko, 24, a compact Japanese import who set a U.S. marathon record of 2:09:26, and New Zealander Allison Roe, 24, who came from down under and well back in the pack...
...states, but it also promised that whenever two-thirds of the state legislatures wanted to summon a new convention, they could rewrite the whole Constitution. Thomas Jefferson thought some such revision was needed once in every generation. "Alterations may at any time be effected ..." added Alexander Hamilton in the 85th and last of the commentaries and cajolings that make up The Federalist. "The will of the requisite number would at once bring the matter to a decisive issue...