Word: twelfth
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Dayton and Tennessee were the other squads selected on this first day. Dayton, which has won 11 of its last 13 games, will be making its twelfth appearance in New York while Tennessee, who counts among its victims Kentucky and Houston, will be competing for the third time in this annual college classic...
...epic only when stricken with elephantiasis, was always a totally escapist form: it transported the audience to a never-never land where evil baron Basil Rathbone could say to rebel Errol Flynn, "You speak treason!"; to which Flynn could add: "Fluently." What creative rapport could Hollywood establish with twelfth-century England or Italian buccaneers? All they could do was film the material as excitingly as they could, and spice it up with Campish or currently idiomatic dialogue...
However, the managers claim in Harvard's defense that Yale and Bowdoin were also going crazy and were celebrating on the eighth and twelfth floors respectively...
Such punishment dates to the twelfth century, when miscreant Crusaders serving under Richard Coeur de Lion were doused with hot pitch and then feathered. It has since been associated with America's Ku Klux Klan, but the fact is that the I.R.A. routinely used it through the 1930s. Disturbed by the rising crime in Falls Road, where the predominantly Protestant police force rarely dares to tread, the I.R.A. decided to revive the punishment for lawbreakers. So did a more militant "provisional" faction of the underground army, which sprang up during the 1969 rioting throughout Northern Ireland...
Harvard's current (and first) community effort is the Putnam Square Apartment for the elderly, located at Mt. Auburn St. and Putnam Ave. The twelve-story tower will contain 94 low-income living units, plus community space on the first and twelfth floors. Plans to build family housing at Blair Pond have been forestalled by local neighborhood opposition. This opposition, not unlike that encountered by many housing planners, is basically racism clothed in ecological terms...