forty-one

There follows another age, called forty-one, then forty-two and each one comes round quicker than the last.

What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

By the mid-1930s, forty-one states prohibited marriage among the “feebleminded” and insane, and thirty allowed eugenic sterilization.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

It meant that when a minority wanted to sustain a filibuster, they would have to muster forty-one votes instead of just thirty-four.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

It meant that when a minority wanted to sustain a filibuster, they would have to muster forty-one votes instead of just thirty-four.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

It meant that when a minority wanted to sustain a filibuster, they would have to muster forty-one votes instead of just thirty-four.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

As of 1950, fellatio—even when practiced by a married couple—was a felony in all forty-eight states, and cunnilingus was a felony in forty-one.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

A new two-volume reference work on “the most severe civil wars since World War II” has forty-one entries running from Afghanistan and Algeria to Yemen and Zimbabwe.17 Over the last fifty years the number of casualties in intrastate conflicts is roughly five times more than that of interstate wars.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

I think about Ahab on his ship, pacing the quarterdeck, possessed by and obsessed with the white whale; I think of Ishmael, in chapter forty-one, the white whale lurking in the depths, as he attempts to understand his complicated captain and his quest.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

Exactly one month later, on July 28, four masked Chechens seized a bus with forty-one passengers near Pyatigorsk, demanding $15 million and a helicopter.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Columnist James Reston noted that forty-one of the forty-eight paragraphs in the speech were devoted to foreign affairs.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011