Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third leg of racing's Triple Crown...
...ballots were in and counted, the outcome decisive. By 53.3% to 46.7%, Los Angeles voters last week elected Mayor Sam Yorty to a third term, repudiating both their own primary verdict of the previous month and election-eve opinion surveys. There was a palpable realization that something was missing. No gracious concession came from the loser, Negro Councilman Thomas Bradley, who said that the preceding weeks had witnessed "the dirtiest campaign in this city's history." Yorty, normally so jaunty when things break right for him, was no Struttin' Sam on election night. Surrounded by bodyguards, he made...
...Biafran government put up $60,000 for the purchase of five secondhand MFl-9Bs in a third-party transaction handled through a Zurich bank. Biafran Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu appointed Von Rosen an air force colonel and approved an additional $140,000 for refitting the planes in friendly Gabon and for the pilots' salaries. Finally Von Rosen told his wife Gunvor of his plans-up to a point. "He told me he was going to Biafra," Countess von Rosen said last week, "but he didn't say he would be bombing MIGs...
...study eventually married, and despite the stereotype of the fatherless slum family, half of them were still in touch with the first child's father or living with him. Although half the women were less than 20 years old when they had their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear-cut, points the other way: three-fourths...
...first edition of Fielding's Guide came off the presses in 1948. It was an instant success. The Danish government ran a survey and was amazed to discover that between one-third and one-half of all Americans who visited between 1948 and 1950 had come at Fielding's recommendation. Nancy and Temple moved from New York to Denmark in 1951, and four months later settled in Formentor, where they built up their remarkable establishment...