Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point margin was Harvard's most decisive victory in history over the Big Green, and was the Crimson's twelfth consecutive win in dual or triangular meet competition...
Liechtenstein, with a population of 17,000 covering sixty-one square miles, remains the only survivor of the 342 states that once comprised the Holy Roman Empire. The House of Liechtenstein dates from the twelfth century, and Crown Prince Johann-Adam will be the thirteenth monarch of his line when he succeeds to the throne some...
...skating, but Daddy pressed on. At ten, Sjoukje was studying in London under a Swiss-born trainer named Arnold Gerschwiler, and two years later she placed 14th in her first major competition-the European championships. At 13, she gave up formal schooling in favor of skating: she was twelfth at the 1956 Olympics, second at the 1960 Olympics, won the first of four straight European championships that same year...
...Like Ants." On the twelfth day, the three men reached the treacherous "black board"-a 230-ft.-high cliff of solid slate almost impervious to drills and pitons. "They look like ants crawling up a building," reported one pilot. "But they wave and seem all right." Cautiously, the climbers eased their way through the "great cathedral"-a double-faced outcropping of rock. At last, after 16 days of suspended existence, Siegert reported: "We feel solid ground beneath our soles." He was on a ledge, 300 ft. below the summit, that measured just 1 ft. wide...
Last week the British made Aden the twelfth member of the Federation, retaining control but vaguely promising eventual independence. Arab nationalists were unhappy. While the Federation's black, yellow, green and blue flag went up over govenment buildings in place of the Union Jack, anti-federation residents raised mourning flags instead...