Word: fifth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...usual detritus of a warm-up game: stray balls, gym bags, sweaty tracksuits?and a jumble of crutches and prosthetic legs. The final countdown to the Paralympics, opening in Athens this week, has begun, and Iran's sitting-volleyball team is readying for what it hopes will be its fifth consecutive gold. Team manager Ali Kashfia, watching from a battered turquoise wheelchair, nods appreciatively as he watches a particularly elegant set-and-spike maneuver, a smile splitting his scarred and twisted face. The 40-year-old veteran of the past four Paralympics lost his legs, one eye and the hearing...
...Street is to finance. It is home to the world's top perfume houses, and almost any designer scent you care to name has been wholly or partly developed here?including the aforementioned Chanel No. 5 (created in 1921 by Ernest Beaux, and so named because it was the fifth scent that he presented to his client, the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel...
...junior class also posted a strong effort to help Harvard to its fifth place result. Laura Maludzinski took 14th with a time just four seconds behind Yourman...
...women’s race, the Crimson took home fifth out of a field of 12, with the host school taking the championship and sweeping the meet...
Month by month, though, Hurlbert's case collected dents from a series of court foul-ups and from Bryant's big-league defense team, which seemed to overwhelm the locals. The crushing blow may have come on July 23, when Fifth Judicial District Court Judge Terry Ruckriegle ruled that Bryant's lawyers could ask the alleged victim about her sex life during a 72-hour window surrounding the incident. Getting her to admit to having had sex with another man before her encounter with Bryant would allow the defense to cast doubt on physical evidence that Bryant had forced himself...