forty-seventh

And that makes facing his and America’s past so painful and problematic for the man who will be this country’s forty-seventh president.

How he died, months before his forty-seventh rotation around the sun.

You’re back where you started, in the city where you were born, only now you go to work on the forty-seventh floor in a downtown building with a wide plaza and a sculpture out front.

For her forty-seventh birthday, her husband, who is also named George, surprised her with a mystery road trip.

Coming into the French Open, she was ranked forty-seventh in the world.