Word: 99th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half his life in government and the other half "in peace." He made that goal with almost seven years to spare before he died last week of a coronary occlusion, 64 years to the week from his first appearance in Congress. Uvalde, which was planning Cactus Jack's 99th birthday celebration, sorrowfully buried him in the Garner family plot...
Noting that Greg had scored 747 (out of 800) on his Scholastic Aptitude Test, his father, a certified public accountant, said: "When you do that well on the college boards, when you're a National Merit Scholarship winner, and you get into the 99th percentile, and you still don't get accepted, the competition must be mighty tough...
...Washington's Mayflower Hotel, members of the city's Association of Oldest Inhabitants had just finished their 99th anniversary dinner. Suddenly, one of the guests emitted a high-pitched whine. Washington Evening Star Reporter Walter Gold leaped to his feet as if stung and dashed from the room in search of a phone. A few minutes later, the Star's night city editor gave him a message: "Holdup at Big D Liquor Store, 4173 Minnesota Avenue, N.E." With that, Reporter Gold was on his way to the story...
...lead to 90-57 with 4:50 to play, and by that time the whole starting lineup was sitting on the bench. The crowd stomped and yelled for a hundred, and with 1:36 to play guard Bill Fegley swished two foul shots to give the Crimson its 99th and 100th points...
...them to college a minute sooner. They just like it. "It's the day of the egghead," chortles Chemistry Teacher Lawrence Lynch. A measure of the results is that last year Beverly Hills' school average on the national Iowa Tests of Educational Development was in the 99th percentile...