Word: twelfth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scrounging runs was hardly the phrase to describe the second game's scoring. It was an error orgy. The Mets won 10-7 on three runs in the twelfth inning. The game featured six official errors and four other balls that got lost in the outfield glare but were scored as hits. Eleven pitchers appeared, and the game lasted a record-breaking 4 hrs. 13 min. All of which only paved the way for A's Owner Charlie Finley to make the most sensational error of all: the banishment of Second Baseman Mike Andrews, who had contributed...
...high wages, dazzling views of Lake Superior from an attractive company town called Silver Bay, and the good moose and partridge hunting in the area. Now, however, the jobs, the plant and the town itself are in danger of extinction. In a complex court case now in its twelfth week, the Government is suing to halt Reserve Mining from dumping 67,000 tons of ore wastes per day into Lake Superior, charging that it is dangerously polluting the once pristine lake, depleting herring fisheries and releasing toxic asbestos fibers into the water...
...twelfth inning of the second game of the World Series. The game was tied at six apiece. The Mets were threatening, with Harrelson on third and McGraw on first. There were two out and the immortal Willy Mays, the goat of the ninth inning, had a chance to be a hero at the plate. It was a tense moment in a wild game --and I missed...
...leader of the opposition Republican Party, became Vice President. A split within the dominant Federalist Party caused Jefferson to come in second in the balloting for President in the Electoral College. Thus he was automatically named Vice President. This mixup could not be repeated after 1804 when the Twelfth Amendment was passed providing that the two offices had to be distinguished on the ballot...
Delayed Delivery. Almost from the start, Mrs. Stanek knew she was super pregnant. By the twelfth week her doctors told her she was carrying more than two fetuses. By the 24th week they announced there would be at least four and ordered her to bed. By the time she was admitted to Denver's General Rose Memorial Hospital, X rays had confirmed that she was carrying sextuplets...