Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place. The bride-to-be is Annie (Kathleen Quinlan). She is accompanied by her Aunt Helen (Elizabeth Wilson), her older sister Andrea (Meryl Streep) and her mother Ruth (Nancy Marchand), an unresigned widow. (Colleen Dewhurst played Ruth for a few performances but withdrew because of a prior commitment.) A fifth woman distinctly jars this ostensibly patrician clan. Dixie Avalon (Dixie Carter) is a breezy, purse-swinging entertainer who has been hired by one of the absent menfolk to sing Oh Promise Me, apparently as a prank. Dixie clearly plans to get cash for her trash...
...Eastern Seaboard Championships March 1-3 at Blodgett Pool, the Eliot House sophomore qualified in four events for next week's NCAA championships while registering the fifth highest individual point total...
...pounder missed qualifying for the 200-yd. freestyle by a fraction of a second but finished fifth in the country while the top four Britons went on to capture a bronze medal in the 800 relay in Montreal...
Nelson has the same familial bonds that many baseball fans feel toward their teams. "I'll always be a Mets fan. I don't have to tell you what the most exciting day of sports broadcasting was for me. In that fifth game of the World Series in '69, I thought of what I had gone through with that team. Just before the end of the game, it dawned on me--the New York Mets were going to win the World Series...
...well try to convince Bernard F. Kelly, Sr. that his mother wasn't from Ireland. But if all it takes is a hit or two of green to make anyone Irish this week, who cares? The important thing is that St. Pat did indeed exist, somewhere back in the fifth century, and he did bring Christianity to the Celts who inhabited the Emerald Isle, not an easy task. At the time, the country was divided into many little kingdoms, many of which remain today as counties. The Celts fought incessantly in between drinking their version of mead and worshipping...