Word: thirteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against snakes, hawks, foxes, and, worst of all, weasels. The cunning craft of the Senator stands stark before us when we recall that he posed, but a few short months ago, as the friend of the White House squirrels who used to frolic carefree before the lawn became the thirteenth green...
...commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later in World War II commanded the Thirteenth Air Force in the Pacific...
...powerful Spartans, Big Ten and defending N.C.A.A. titlists, exhibited a scoring punch which gained them first, fourth, fifth, eleventh, and thirteenth places in the scoring. Their total was 114 points less than that of runner-up St. Joseph's of Philadelphia. Penn State finished third with 158, while Notre Dame placed fourth with...
...worked out a mileage-volume pipeline formula that would pay Syria $18 million annually, threw in an extra $23.8 million to settle past claims. Last January it offered the same arrangement to Lebanon, which asked pay equal to Syria's, though I.P.C.'s Lebanese lines traveled one-thirteenth the distance and carried half the volume...
...Ibsen went still further and made him the butt of satire, epitomized by the fact that the pastor has twelve children, eight of whom troop back and forth through the set--all of them girls--and his wife is again pregnant (and will doubtless present him with a thirteenth girl...