Word: hundredth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-day auction brought in more than $800,000. The FSLIC, which currently holds $9.6 billion in assets seized from failed thrifts, has raised more than $300 million this year by selling off their property. That comes to roughly one five-hundredth of what the S & L bailout will cost U.S. taxpayers in the next ten years...
...complaints wore on, Gorbachev had reason to wonder, perhaps for the hundredth time, what he -- and glasnost -- had wrought. While his countrymen sat transfixed before their TV and radio sets, the Deputies who filled the vast hall continued to unleash frustration, criticism and not a little invective at their rulers -- even at Gorbachev himself. Some Muscovites said they found the show so riveting they had to keep their heart pills handy. Others admitted they watched and wept. One Transcaucasian Deputy aptly called the assembly a "volcano of words and wishes...
...sure The Crimson was in the leftmost one-third in those days, but not in the leftmost one-hundredth," he adds...
...arriving late, reporter Wallace Matthews bulled into an inner room where Hembrick slouched disconsolate. Matthews thrust a microphone into the stricken youth's face while posing the perennial pointless question about how Hembrick felt. As soon as swimmer Matt Biondi was touched out for the gold by a hundredth of a second in the 100-meter butterfly, analyst John Naber nastily opined that Biondi "deserved the loss" because he had glided in rather than risk a final, choppy stroke that might have caused him to collide with the wall...
...winter for the audience, but the cruel April of the family sitting room comes to the stage in a production of The Cocktail Party to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of T.S. Eliot...