Word: fourth
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...would expect from this conductor, there is no arbitrary tampering with tempos, or other excesses marching under the banner of personal insight. Karajan accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets this album, apart-from its ancestors and competitors alike-is its distinctive blend of youthful pizazz and seasoned know...
...Block has drawn and quartered Washington politicians for more than three decades. Says Block, whose frequent quarry was the jowly, bushy-browed Richard Nixon: "My cartoons are opinion pieces and are recognized as such. My opinion." To honor the Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist, the National Press Club gave him its Fourth Estate Award, which has gone in the past to such heavies as CBS's Walter Cronkite and the New York Times's James Reston. The 68-year-old "Herblock," as he signs his name, says he plans to keep at it for "20 or 30 more years...
...century the indeterminate sentence has been the sweetheart of prison reformers. Yet this month Illinois becomes the fourth state in two years-after Maine, California and Indiana-to install a system of judicially fixed, predetermined sentences in place of the traditional, often capricious program of discretionary release by parole authorities. Moves are afoot in 15 other states to do the same. As the respected Corrections Magazine puts it, "Determinate sentencing is clearly an idea whose time has come...
Sonnabend, playing at the seventh spot, recorded the fourth and deciding point of the team match as she scored a come-from-behind victory, 14-18, 15-8, 15-8 and 15-9. Sarah Mleczko and Cary and Ellie Cunningham fared less well, as they dropped their matches, 0-3, 1-3 and 2-3, respectively...
Captain Nancy Cooper came the closest to having her record blemished. In her fourth and final bout of the afternoon, she quickly went down 4-1 against MIT's Marion Stein. She came back to 4-2 by parrying a Stein attack then counter-attacking into the MIT fencers midsection. Cooper tied the bout at 4-4 with two touches below Stein's attempted parries in two seconds. She clinched the victory by beating Stein's blade downward and lunging forward to touch the unprotected stomach...