Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousands of arriving troops were all fed and housed, shipments were somehow delivered, and the PXs were always well stocked. But in May, Kuntze's empire collapsed. His headquarters unit was dissolved, and all logistics operations were transferred to other commands. Kuntze himself was shipped out to the 12th Naval District headquarters in San Francisco. Last week the Navy revealed the reason. A three-man board of inquiry, after a quiet two-month investigation of Kuntze's activities, had recommended that he be court-martialed. There were rumors of currency violations, misappropriation of Government funds and personal indiscretions...
...also argues that in its early years the church found it convenient to dissolve the marriages of powerful lords and kings. Church historians concede that such annulments were often granted on tenuous grounds, and that the current strict attitude to divorce did not begin to take shape until the 12th century. Lepp concludes that the church, even while holding fast to its belief in the sanctity of marriage, ought to be less rigoristic about divorced Catholics who wed a second time...
...Easy as Lying. The recorder derives its name from the archaic meaning of the verb "record," that is, "to sing like a bird." Its origins have been traced to the 12th century, but its heyday came in the late 17th and early 18th century, when Bach, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi and Handel wrote a wealth of music for it. Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton and Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced...
...Apathy. Nowhere is the X-factor of Negro participation more potentially decisive than in Virginia, where three Democratic incumbents who personify the Old Dominion's conservative tradition are being challenged in the July 12th primary. U.S. Representative Howard Worth ("Judge") Smith, 83, longtime chairman of the House Rules Committee, is seeking his 19th House term, faces a Democratic opponent for the first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign...
Pitchers Stu Miller and Jim Lonborg blanked each other's teams for the 10th, 11th and 12th. Boston's Lonborg, however, met trouble in the 13th. After a single by Bob Johnson, Lonborg intentionally walked two Orioles. Then he balked while pitching to Luis Aparicio, and sent Johnson in to score...