Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factors contributing to the boom in litigation throughout the 1970s is the general population's stubborn litigiousness over even the most mundane issues, coupled with either a tragic inability or an outright refusal to face and solve routine daily problems that should not even require the intervention of third parties, let alone the involvement of our judicial system...
...director in 1973 and seemed to be having a hard time gaining control of the Bureau machinery. Retired Administrator Mohr, according to many agents, urged Kelley to bring Adams back from exile. Kelley did so, and Adams prospered: within a year, he was named the bureau's third in command, in charge of all FBI investigations. The promotion of Adams created one of Kelley's biggest headaches, forcing him to deny repeatedly that the bureau was being controlled by Hoover's people. The charge was that Mohr still flashed signals to Adams and to Nicholas Callahan, once...
...contretemps over Leninism reached a peak during a recent conference of the Catalan branch of the party, the so-called United Socialist Party of Catalonia (P.S.U.C.), which pulled in almost a third of the 1.6 million Communist votes in last June's elections, taking eight of the 20 Communist seats in the 350-member Congress of Deputies. With Carrillo looking on unhappily, a majority of P.S.U.C. delegates declared against Thesis XV, not just because of ideological considerations, but because so major an issue had not been permitted enough discussion. They tried "Stalinist methods to democratize the party," grumbled...
...mark the event, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art has put on a sumptuous show titled "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism." It contains 81 paintings-a third of them lent by the Musée Marmottan in Paris, all of them images from the garden. We see, lined up, the different versions of each motif that Monet so obsessively worked at, in every possible variation of light, laboring to divide nuances into further nuances and stabilize their intervals with the devotion of a particle physicist: the poplars, the haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor...
Harvard opened the scoring in the third frame after Rick Pearce singled, Chuck Marshall laid down a sacrifice bunt, and Bobby Kelley followed with a run-scoring single...