Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some stretch-outs and reductions. The budget authorizes the Air Force to spend $597 million on continued development of the supersonic B-1 strategic bomber, plus $1.3 bil lion to buy 96 F-15 fighters (instead of the 108 it wanted). The Navy will get permission to build a fourth huge missile-armed Trident submarine, at a cost of $598.6 million, and to put $725.5 million into developing a new warhead that can maneuver during its flight to avoid anti-ballistic missiles...
...native of Uniontown, Pa., Muncie is the fourth brother in his family to play football. Nelson is a cornerback with the Baltimore Colts, Bill was an all-star running back with the B.C. Lions in Canadian football, and George played briefly with the Minnesota Vikings. Chuck, who changed the spelling of his last name from Munsey because "Muncie goes back to my grandfather and great-grandfather," wants to be drafted by a California team. But wherever he ends up, Muncie does not plan to overstay his welcome. He is thinking of attending law school during the off-seasons, because...
...Death of Him who created it." That sounds like Richard Nixon's blurt on the Apollo 11 moon landing, but it was written in the 16th century by a Spaniard named Lopez de Gomara, after men knew Christopher Columbus had found not Cathay but a wholly new "fourth part of the earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent of toil and tyranny, naked except for a bright girdle of macaw feathers, as imagined...
With four seconds to go and the game tied at 68, Fordham reserve guard Kevin Brown threw up a forty-foot desperation jump shot that tickled the twine. When the yelling and screaming had died down, Harvard had indeed lost its fourth straight game of the season...
...SOCIETY'S production at the Agassiz does full justice to Iolanthe. Here and there, of course, there are minor disappointments--probably due to lack of money rather than lack of talent. The scenery for the opening act in Fairyland looks fourth grade-ish: it consists of three huge white bedsheets painted green and hung as sylvan backdrops. The other set, though--Joe Mobilia's piquant idea of what the Houses of Parliament look like is much better, though whether Rarry or Pugin would recognize it is a good question...