Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Jenny Stone and senior Sarah Mleczko, both recovering from either illness or injury, scored decisive victories at the fourth and sixth positions, respectively. With Courtney Stimpson taking a win in the third slot and the inexperienced but improving Libby Pierpont copping a victory in the seventh slot, Harvard coasted into its season-opening triumph...
...mile, Eric Schuler and Bruce Weber placed second and third behind Murphy to engineer the fourth Crimson sweep of the day in the final individual event...
...Shaak-the dark-haired young woman a little off to one side, whose restless, measuring eyes say teacher-this exuberant encounter between the very living and the very dead is no random happening. The little girls chasing lizards around the sandy grave of Madison Starke Perry (1814-1865), the fourth Governor of Florida, and the boys swigging Coke while making tombstone rubbings with brilliant red crayons are members of the Enrichment Class for Life and Death at the Myra Terwilliger Elementary School, now in session. And Mrs. Shaak-in her third year of leading dry runs through the Valley...
...that is used to justify sex education courses-talk about a subject that has been nearly taboo, and therefore mysterious and frightening, and everybody will probably feel better. One of the standard texts, by Gene Stanford and Deborah Perry, is even called Death Out of the Closet. The gifted fourth-and fifth-graders, mostly with IQs above 125, who make up Mrs. Shaak's little flock are simply dragging the dark angel into the Florida sunlight and making death almost ordinary...
This is the loneliness of the long-shot candidacy. George Bush, 55, has lived this life for nearly two years, pursuing the presidency of the United States. He has traveled nearly half a million miles in 38 states, an effort that has brought him no higher than fourth in nationwide public opinion polls among Republicans. But in the past few weeks George Herbert Walker Bush has managed to shorten the odds considerably. The Republican field of ten candidates has plainly divided into the big four and the minor six. Bush is firmly part of that top rank, along with Ronald...