Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back then I had this unbelievable crush on the girl who sat in front of me in math class, Wendy Hollocher. Wendy had short light brown hair and a button nose with dimples to match. Her figure wasn't especially noticeable, but then again, not many fourth-graders' were...
...never told Wendy where the book came from, and as the year wore on I lost touch with her. Fourth-graders are pretty fickle, and by the end of elementary school, so I heard, she had run off with some guy on a motorcycle...
...furious, organizing energy seems to mark him as an angel of coherence. He has obviously read his Garcia Marquez, his Joyce, his Thomas Pynchon. He shares with those authors the desire to assemble everything he has known and seen and make it all fit together, beautifully. In his fourth novel, Rushdie has done just that...
Megamillionaires with a willed fortune are often ambivalent about it. Inheriting Dow Jones stock now worth $150 million, recalls Christopher Bancroft, was like winning an elephant in a raffle: "I didn't know what the hell to do with it." Laura, a fourth-generation Rockefeller whose maiden name is hidden behind two marriages, remembers her family's vast compound as a "verdant cage." A psychiatric social worker, she happily gives away her inherited income to favorite causes like the Children's Defense Fund...
...Crimson captured at least a tie of its fourth straight Ivy League title before 100 spectators at Blodgett Pool, Saturday. In its last home meet of the season, the Crimson crushed Cornell...