Word: fiftieth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cloudless Thursday evening in Detroit. Assume further that there is no advance warning. Shortly after 8:30, the lone warhead of a Soviet SS-13 missile comes swooping down. Six thousand feet, directly above the intersection of Interstate Highways 94 and 75, the 1-megaton bomb-only a fiftieth as large as the Soviets' largest warhead-explodes with the force of 1 million tons...
HARVARD AND YALE have met for the fiftieth time in a football game. A crowd of 60,000 persons is dispersing in small, excited groups which bear with them the spirit of a rivalry firmly based on friendship...
This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the undergraduate House system at Harvard. But the opportunity to celebrate the history of what one House master calls "the only thing that makes the Harvard undergraduate experience bearable" was largely missed. Instead of dressing up the Houses for a grand, festive occasion, the College sent in teams of building experts from as far away as St. Louis armed with scientific x-ray, ultra-sonic and infra-red machines to examine the structure and mechanical workings of the Houses. The reason: The anniversary was more than a milestone for a unique system...
Commerce between the two nations is still relatively small. China sent the U.S. $1 billion in goods this year, while the U.S. shipped $3.5 billion to China. In contrast, American exports to Taiwan, which is about one-fiftieth the size of China, amounted to $3 billion in just the first eight months of this year. While businessmen and bureaucrats have been eying products and exchanging visiting cards at the shows, the traveling exhibit has so far resulted in disappointingly low sales...
...nothing, they fizzle like a summer squall over Cape Cod. As he proved in the hockey and snow sequences in Love Story, Segal has a sharp eye for powerful movie scenes. Bob & Sheila & Jessica & Paula & Jean-Claude peaks with Bob and Jean-Claude at Arthur Fiedler's fiftieth anniversary July Fourth concert. As they sit in a drenching downpur eating sandwiches, the Old Man throws the Pops into the 1812 Overature as fireworks explode into the night sky. It's sort of like the running sequence in Rocky, only Ivy League...