Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walt Hewlett, who finished twelfth in last year's NCAA cross-country meet, leads a five-man Harvard team into this year's nationals at East Lansing, Mich., today...
...Hewlett doesn't do better than twelfth this year, it will be a serious disappointment. Undefeated in dual-meets this year, Hewlett won the Heptagonals by 56 seconds and led Joe Lynch of Georgetown for four and a half miles before losing to him in the IC4A's, the Eastern championship. Lynch's winning margin in that race was six seconds...
...know we conservatives are great believers in the fact that human nature doesn't change," Barry explained at the beginning of the campaign. "The only thing you can do about history is try to make it better the twelfth or 20th time around." But for the vast majority of voters, one time around was enough. On election night, Barry Goldwater went to bed early, his message unheeded...
...Dream of Joseph: When tricks or ploys fail to win recognition, the Jacob complex goes underground. Another breed of undergraduate learns to content himself with imagined glories. The young Joseph, twelfth man in a line of brothers, dreams that the bound sheaves of his brothers stood round and made obeisance to his sheaf in the field...
...Martin Luther King Jr. Last week King, 35, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1964. He is the twelfth American, and the youngest person ever, to be so honored...