Word: fourth
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Holleran won the first and fourth games, but she was unable to close out Bellknap, dropping the fifth game, 15-11, to the number-one seed at next week's intercollegiate championships...
Maybe next year the New England committee will consider skipping the formalities and hand the title to the Crimson. Harvard won 38 of its 40 bouts to win the New England Championships for the fourth consecutive season...
This was the extraordinary plight of Salman Rushdie, 41, whose fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, has precipitated what some Islamic experts regard as the most incendiary literary fight in the 14 centuries of Islamic history. Last week the controversy spread from the dusty streets of Pakistan to the offices of European publishers and to the shopping malls of America, where the nation's largest booksellers ordered all copies of The Satanic Verses removed from the shelves. Suddenly the name Salman Rushdie was on the lips of millions, many reviling him but others expressing sympathy and genuinely wondering how a novel...
Once again, Rushdie cannot go home. His north London house, guarded around the clock by uniformed police, is empty. His fourth-floor study, where he wrote The Satanic Verses at the rate of roughly 800 words a day, no longer betrays the traces of his working routine, mounting piles of typescript scattered about the floor. But on a mantelpiece in this room rests an intriguing souvenir of Rushdie's past: a beautifully bound octagonal miniature, roughly the size of a silver dollar, of the Koran...
...while debate continues over the merits of the new system, critics maintain that little will be changed in the house communities after randomly assigning one-fourth of the available space for the Class of '92 in eight houses...