Word: third
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bosket never met his father, but the parallels between the two men are dramatic. Each had only a third-grade education, was sentenced to the same reform school at nine, went on to commit double murders, and displayed a superior intelligence. The father's goals, however, were different: he studied hard and became the first convict in history to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After his release from prison in 1983, Bosket Sr. found work as a university teaching assistant...
...intelligence; the notebooks have fetched up in London, intended for a seedy and temporarily missing publisher named Bartholomew Scott Blair, known familiarly as Barley. The first priority is to find him. The second is to grill him until he admits his involvement in a duplicitous plot. Failing that, the third imperative is to enlist Barley as a spy and send him off to discover more about his mysterious Soviet informant...
...Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) was said by friends to be running hard to replace Foley as majority leader, the No. 2 position. It was unclear whether the third-ranking Democrat in the House, majority whip Tony Coelho of California, would seek to move up or would be prevented from doing so by separate ethics questions that have arisen over his business dealings...
Despite having three goals disallowed, the Crimson defeated Princeton, 4-1, and captured its third Ivy title...
...novels), but so far as one needs a guide to the free state of Theroux's imagination, it is this: like the author, the novel's hero, Andrew (sometimes Andre) Parent, was born and reared in Massachusetts, spent a good part of the '60s teaching and traveling in the Third World, and eventually made his mark as a London-based writer...