Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years and a million delays (because of legal problems) later, Springsteen's fourth album is here. Unfortunatley, the boy from Asbury Park seems to have lost something during those years, because Darkness on the Edge of Town is not really the album everyone has been wating to hear for so long...
...curiae briefs, the most that had ever been submitted in the history of the court. "The Justices really agonized," said an inside observer. Three times the opinions were sent to the printer only to be pulled back for additions, deletions and revisions. The version finally made public was the fourth. Blackmun, in particular, had trouble making up his mind. Though he and Burger have often been paired as the Nixon-appointed and conservatively inclined "Minnesota twins," he decisively parted with his colleague on this issue...
...remarkable thing in Greenfield, Iowa, on this Fourth of July is that so many of the residents have their personal stories to support their concerns. Four policemen in town do the job that two used to do. Neither the population nor the incidence of crime has increased more than a fraction. A nearby hamlet was adequately supplied with two special education teachers, but there were funds left over so they hired a third teacher to sop up the surplus. A member of a state review board attended a meeting where he and the others were warned that their appropriation...
...road southeast of Paris, a car lurched out of control and crashed into a tree. The driver and two of his passengers were injured; the fourth was killed instantly. When news of the tragedy emerged, the only appropriate word was one that the dead man had made famous: absurd...
Looking around the station you see the usual weekend crowd, multiplied by a special Fourth of July factor, streaming across the platforms to the Manhattan-bound trains. It is a white, albeit well-tanned crowd: Jamaica Station is the terminal stop for all the trains coming in from the Hamptons and the other smoking-jacket resorts on Long Island, and affluence hangs heavy in the air on a holiday weekend. Young couples, sleek tans glistening under alligator shirts and Gucci shorts, tote their tennis rackets on top of their other luggage; a slightly older woman, just beginning to lose...