Word: 36th
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...characteristically insular reaction came from Sir Garnet Wolseley who, as adjutant general of the British army, warned in 1882 that the tunnel "would be a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make war upon us." Last week the British House of Commons, reviewing the issue for the 36th time in 172 years, scuttled the most serious effort yet to build the chunnel...
Senior wide receiver Pat McInally last night was presented the George Bulger Lowe award from the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. McInally becomes the 36th New England college football player, and the fifth from Harvard, to win this award for "excellence in performance and value to his team...
...Crimson harriers will have "upset" on their minds as they compete in the 36th Annual Heptagonal Games this afternoon in Van Cortland Park, New York...
...Italy, as the 36th government since the collapse of Fascism ended with Premier Mariano Rumor's resignation, efforts to form a 37th hesitantly began. Cementing a new center-left coalition in economically battered Italy will not be easy. The next Christian Democratic Premier might be tempted to take the first step toward the so-called "historic compromise" and grant the Communists a consultative policy role. With 1.6 million members and 175 of 629 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, they already are the second strongest party after the Christian Democrats, and even outside the government, Communist influence increases with...
...indeed the rest of the world-hardly blink an eye when governments fall. After all, that political drama has taken place no fewer than 35 times in the past 31 years, and the life expectancy of an average Italian Cabinet is only ten months. Last week Italy's 36th government fell after only 89 days, but this time there was a major difference. The latest upheaval, which Italians quickly dubbed "the crisis in the dark," was not caused, as it so often has been in the past, by political infighting. This time it was the direct result...