Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months pregnant, takes a fall on the ice as she and Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...
...Fiat last summer overtook VW as the world's fourth biggest automaker (behind the U.S. Big Three), Volkswagen's total sales last year reached $2.3 billion, even after the West German recession of early 1967 forced a temporary 25% cutback in domestic production. Soon, the 14 millionth beetle will roll off VW's assembly lines...
Another episode, played by professional actors, dramatizes matrimonial alienation. A scene shows a wife in the kitchen, husband in the living room, thinking their separate thoughts. She: "This must be the three millionth time I've washed this dish. John, tell me to break it. Ask me to sit next to you for a while." He: "Jane, forget that silly dish. Come and sit with me and tell me that all my fears are untrue." But neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with...
...angstrom is equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter and is used to measure the length of light waves. The word has nothing to do with Angst, but pays tribute to Pioneer Spectroscopist Anders Angstrom...
...best available statistics, Yaa was the 25 millionth West African to be vaccinated against smallpox in the past twelve months. When the U.S. AID-financed program is completed in 31 years, it is expected that 110 million people in Ghana and 18 other African countries will have been vaccinated. In a parallel program, 5,000,000 children have already been inoculated against measles; eventually, 30 million will...