Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, when Syria experienced its twelfth attempted coup d'état in 14 years and the only one to throw away the script. Led by ex-Colonel Jassem Alwan, who had already staged an unsuccessful coup last year, a band of army officers and civilians launched a morning attack in Damascus on the radio station and the Defense Ministry. Diplomats in Britain's new green and yellow embassy got off a cable home: "Heavy fighting in the heart of the city...
...really run that big, noisy Long Island newspaper?" an incredulous New York banker once asked one of her editors. "Run it?" he replied. "Hell, she drives it!" In 1954, for crusading against labor racketeering, Newsday won its first Pulitzer Prize, and by this year it had grown into the twelfth largest evening daily in the U.S., with a circulation of 370,000. It grew fat on advertising, now carries more linage than any New York daily, and is second in the U.S. only to the Los Angeles Times. Said one former editor: "The paper was the only thing...
...Russians and four Americans. But in the finals, the Russians were the masters of the younger and shakier Americans, whose main virtue was the exuberant individualism of their playing. When the prizes were announced, the Russians took first, second, fourth and ninth; the Americans placed third, fifth, eleventh and twelfth...
Married. Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel, 26, twelfth in the line of succession to the British throne; and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, commoner second son of the twelfth Earl of Airlie; in Westminster Abbey, London (see THE WORLD...
Brazil has the world's eighth largest population, the twelfth largest gross national product, and it takes up nearly half of South America; yet Americans as a whole know little of this huge nation's origins and history, its culture and personality. Out of admiration as much as acumen, Publisher Alfred A. Knopf has filled the gap by publishing two volumes of the classic social history of Brazil written by Gilberto Freyre, 63, Brazil's great scholar...