Word: twelfth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Polish thrust is not yet a major threat to the better-known shipyards of Bremen, Clydeside and Yokohama. The country still ranks only twelfth in gross registered tonnage among shipbuilding nations. But Poland's annual output has risen 50% just since 1970, to 750,000 deadweight tons, and shipbuilding has become the country's second largest earner of foreign currency, after coal. Polish shipbuilding has become one of the few Communist bloc industries ca pable of competing in the West on straight commercial terms. Capitalist nations last year bought almost $200 million worth of Polish ships, about half...
...play golf, especially on Ladies' Day at the Everglades Club, but she gets "caught up in" the (strictly ladies) luncheon and (mixed) dinner party circuit. "There are almost too many parties," complains Mrs. Meadows. "I was recently out eleven nights in a row. I canceled out on the twelfth, and there's a luncheon every day. Some people have nothing more...
...sentimental movie fan it seemed something like a nightmare: Liz and Dick Burton were getting a divorce in public-and on TV at that. No fear. The TV split was for one of ABC's quickie nighttime movies, Divorce; His-Divorce; Hers. It was the Burtons' twelfth flick together since it all began on the set of Cleopatra eleven years ago. Stories from the set made it clear that the Burtons had considerable trouble sticking to the soapy script, with such forgettable lines by jilted wife Liz as, "You'll never be able to give as much...
...will be facing a Big Red team that have not lost since dropping a surprising 4-0 Ivy League game to Harvard October 21 Cornell topped previously unbeaten Long Island University by an identical 32 score Monday for the New York regional crown. It was the Rig Red's twelfth victory of the season against three losses. The Crimson's season mark now stands...
...Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...