Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pastimes. White was not very good at falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away), but it became his passion; it had the advantage of belonging to the boyhood of history. Later, for perhaps the very same reason, he threw himself into the study of Gaelic, spent years translating a 12th century Latin bestiary, and became an armchair authority on the Emperor Hadrian...
Jack Purdy led the Crimson attack with a 3 and 2 victory at six position. Purdy churned through the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th holes in three under par to grab a commanding lead, which he never relinquished. He was one over par when he walked in from the 16th hole...
Captain Bo Keefe set the pace with birdies on the first three holes and clinched his matches on the 12th hole, 8-6 and 7-6. He quit on the 15th hole, five under par at the time...
LoPucki eased through his matches, 5-4 and 2-1, and Rank Heisler, number five, clinched his matches early with pars on the 12th and 16th holes...
...students, of course, had slogans of their own. Some McCarthy workers sported buttons reading "We Try Harder"-in Hebrew. Posters announced: "God Isn't Dead-He's Just Lonely-But He Might Commit Suicide March 12th. It's Up to You." That same sense of last stand desperation was echoed in a primary-eve plaint: "Over 40%, we go on to Wisconsin; 30%, back to school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre...