I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation. |
On the first day alone at least forty-seven persons were injured and sixty to seventy cars stoned. |
Then, at six minutes and forty-seven seconds of the third period, that thing happened for which the Detroit hockey fans wait. |
I have the impression that those on the garage have been left completely untended since they were applied some forty-seven years ago. |
My water clock says that it's forty-seven minutes after the twenty-third hour. |
Between June 6 and July 18, forty-seven people were found dead of thirst and heat prostration on the Tohono O'Odham lands. |