Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Colorado town of Walsenburg is a battered relic of the Old West, scarred by deserted downtown stores, unpainted houses, potholed streets. Once a thriving coal town, Walsenburg sank into slow decline when its customers started switching to oil and gas in the 1920s. The population gradually shrank by one-third, to 5,500, and the town's prime source of income became federal and state welfare handouts. Then, last year, the exasperated women of Walsenburg rebelled...
...vowed that they would not let the money go to their heads. They went right on living in their modest brick duplex in suburban Bondi and invested their new wealth. The only member of the Thorne family to get excited over the windfall was eight-year-old Graeme, a third-grader at a private school called Scots College...
...dangling capsule into the plane. At 12,000 ft. Mitchell made a pass-and missed by a breathtaking 6 in. The parachute continued its float down. Mitchell made another pass at it at 10,000 ft., but brought his Cng in too high. He wheeled back for a third try, which he knew must be his last. At 8,500 ft. Mitchell carefully made his final pass, heard a crewman shout: "That's it. You've got hold...
Naturally, many cannot keep up. At two high schools, only one-third of the students can afford class jewelry. At another school near Portland, only one-fifth of the students can afford the junior-senior prom. How do the outsiders feel? Aside from moving or military service, notes Hummel, the main reason students give for quitting school in Portland is "to get work and earn money." Says...
...shotput, the U.S. whales will wage a private war that will likely produce the most fascinating field event on the program. Back for a try at his third gold medal is California's Parry O'Brien, patriarch of the herd at 28. whose best effort this year (63 ft. 5 in.) nonetheless stands a poor third to that of Arizona's 20-year-old Dallas Long (64 ft. 6½ in.) and Kansas' Bill Nieder, 26. the world record holder (65 ft. 10 in.). As the equalizer. O'Brien counts on his imposing reputation...