Word: twelfth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episodes were filmed by a movie camera in a twelfth-floor window above the street. What the camera did not record, though, were the remarks of pedestrians buffeted by the psychologists: "Whatsa madda? Ya blind? Whyn't ya look where ya goin'? Ya crazy or sump'n?" The way Wolff sees it, such comments indicate that New Yorkers, though inured to many other inconveniences, are not tolerant of sidewalk bumping; they expect some degree of cooperation from other pedestrians in order to avert collisions...
...frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires to be the first English Pontiff since Breakspear in the twelfth century...
...school is "integrated" much like those in about 100 other rural districts in Georgia. Under a 1967 freedom-of-choice plan, the modern all-black Walker High School had to send all its eleventh and twelfth graders to the all-white Ludowici High School, where 65 blacks and 621 whites are now enrolled. Blacks can also enter Ludowici's ninth and tenth grades-but dare not to. Conversely, whites can enter those grades at Walker-but refuse to. Result: Walker has lost two grades and remained all black...
...Friday, Steve' Krause, John Munk, and the freestyle relay team earned most of the Crimson's points. Breaststrokers Pete Mikhalevsky and Steve Baumgart earned the eleventh and twelfth spots at 200 yards, Mike Cahalan was tenth in the 100-free, and Dave Silver finished ninth in the three-meter diving to give Harvard additional points. Dan Kobick was eleventh in the 200-back...
...graduate student at the School of Education who coordinated Senator Eugene McCarthy's 1968 New Hampshire Primary Campaign said yesterday that he is an "active but as yet unannounced candidate" for Congress from Massachusetts' Twelfth District...