seventy-eight

In one month at the dealership—August 1994—he had his name on seventy-eight deals.

California Dreaming

Greg McMichael—Every pitch he threw seemed to be about seventy-eight miles per hour, and seemed to travel on a consistent parabola.

In the Time of Bobby Cox

“Fellow graduates of the class of seventy-eight, Principal Osder, distinguished guests, family, friends . . .”

The Dark Side of Innocence

I was cheering at thirty-three rpm, and the rest of the squad was at seventy-eight.

The Dark Side of Innocence

Nineteen seventy-eight may have been a wild time for fashion, but I partook of no extremes: no mile-high platform shoes, no garish tie-dyes or fringed leather vests.

The Dark Side of Innocence

At seventy-eight, his metabolism was certainly in high gear.

How the End Begins

During that war, NATO planes had bombed civilian infrastructure and inhabited areas of Serbia, flying more than 38,000 missions over the course of seventy-eight days, and dropping almost twenty thousand bombs.

The Return

I went for seventy-eight days with no communication with anyone on land.

Tori McClure talks about rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, a story she records in Pearl in the Storm

In 2004, after proclaiming for years that she was ready to expire, Kübler-Ross died at her home in Scottsdale at the age of seventy-eight.

The Truth About Grief

Rosenblatt, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota, surveyed seventy-eight different ethnic groups, from the Basque to the Balinese, the Masai to Marshallese, and documented an astonishing diversity of who grieves, how they grieve, and for how long.

The Truth About Grief