Word: ninth
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...unnamed narrator of Mario Vargas Llosa's ninth novel has practically everything in common with his creator: age (early 50s), nationality (Peruvian), occupation (writer). Similarly, the two share a common cosmopolitanism, having spent large swatches of their adult lives in Europe. An autobiographical strain has often appeared in Vargas Llosa's fiction, perhaps most notably and entertainingly in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982). The Storyteller captures the author -- and his surrogate -- in a subdued and ruminative mood...
...candidates Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and Jonathan S. Myers each received about 80 of Wolf's transfer votes. Vying with them for the seventh, eighth and ninth council seats are Independents Sheila T. Russell and Alfred W. LaRosa...
...despite the squad's aberrational success, Weisbrod knew he had to leave the Island to get the national exposure needed to further his hockey career. So in ninth grade, Weisbrod enrolled in Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school with a reputation as one of the nation's finest--which meant next to nothing to the driven young athlete...
...Ninth Place...
Sullivan predicted that the basic makeup of thecouncil would not change next year, with fourseats going to the CCA, four to conservativeIndependents and the ninth to Toomey...