Forty Nine

That percentage increases to 34 percent for those ages thirty-five to forty-nine roughly the overall average, and then rises to 58 percent among Catholics under thirty-five. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Her existence, her identity, everything she had been and become over the past forty-nine years was gone. ❋ Scott Gummer (2011)

One of my patients, Carmela, forty-nine, has learned to be prepared when she travels. ❋ Keri Gans (2011)

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." ❋ Unknown (2009)

BETTY MACDONALD became a widow quite without warning in May 1959 when her husband, Richard Heppner, died of a heart attack at age forty-nine. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Gina, forty-nine, loved her morning bagel slathered with butter, her lunchtime tuna fish loaded up with mayonnaise, and her homemade spaghetti Bolognese—a meat sauce packed with ground beef—for dinner. ❋ Keri Gans (2011)

“We were told we had a bus wreck,” says Trimble, forty-nine, a self-proclaimed “country boy” who still lives in his hometown of ❋ Unknown (2010)

Likewise, the survey reflects the inroads of what might be considered occult or New Age outlooks in America: Seven percent of Americans believe in reincarnation (a concept that few Americans had heard of a generation ago); seventeen percent report having contact with the dead; forty-nine percent read horoscopes "for fun," whereas twelve percent are believers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Within two generations, a country of peasants had become one of the most literate in the world: by the late 1950s, 98.5 percent of Russians aged ten to forty-nine could read. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

First, there were forty-nine oblasts, or provinces, and six krays, or territories—categories that in practice had the same status and rights. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, world military spending for 2009 reached $1.531 trillion, a six percent increase over 2008 and a forty-nine percent increase over the year 2000. ❋ Bernard Starr (2011)

Logan threw a complete game one-hitter with only forty-nine pitches. ❋ Scott Gummer (2011)

He left behind 10,000 acres of land in seven tracts, forty-nine slaves, and the iron mine. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

“That ‘bitch’ has offered us forty-nine percent of Miracles, Inc., which, at the moment, is worth around fourteen million.” ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)