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Word: fourth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing less than number one in the ECAC last season and ended up fourth in the nation after two disappointing losses in the NCAA tournament. The Terriers also whipped Harvard three times a year...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: B.U. Skaters Soar in ECAC Hockey, Dump New Hampshire in O.T., 7-6 | 1/14/1977 | See Source »

Network starts out with an honest premise. A distinguished anchorman from UBS, the fourth network, is about to be axed because of poor ratings. Instead of existing politely he makes a scene on the air, replete with words rarely heard on television. The network respectables are outraged. But the network's younger technocrats, who don't care about the integrity of the news, point out that the anchorman's antics have caused the ratings to zoom...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Dreck from the UBS Evening Newsroom in New York | 1/14/1977 | See Source »

Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking in a message to Congress on January 6, 1941, enunciated the doctrine of the four essential human freedoms: The first being freedom of speech and expression; second, the freedom of worship; third, the freedom from hunger and want; and fourth, freedom from fear or insecurity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leonard's Speech | 1/14/1977 | See Source »

...would be hard to find a less "Beautiful Thing" than the opening track of this album. Clapton's choice of lyrics has always tended towards the fourth-shot-of-Jim-Beam simplistic, and though Richard Manuel and Rick Danko dreamed up this particular opaque gem, Clapton's lazy guitar and uninspired vocals add no lustre. This prolonged and painful recollection of a past love is chicory-bitter moaning. It won't generate much energy except in your fancy new turntable. You know, the kind you can program to skip tracks...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Double Trouble at Shangri-La | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...held his opponent in single numbers (15-4, 15-2, 15-9), and only Kaplan and John Havens, the latter playing in the number four position after a Monday challenge loss to Mark Panarese, allowed less. For Havens, undefeated at two last year, playing in the fourth position is as strenuous as passing up a meal in one of the Houses...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Racquetmen Do It Again, 9-0 | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

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