Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of the now antiquated Twelfth Amendment (passed in 1804), the slates of electors chosen in this week's national voting will meet in their various state capitals on Dec. 16 to cast ballots for President and Vice President of the U.S. Each state has a number of electoral votes equal to its total number of Senators and Representatives in Congress. Thus New York, for example, with 41 Representatives and two Senators, has 43 electoral votes. The District of Columbia lacks congressional representation but has three electoral votes by virtue of the 23rd Amendment, ratified...
Keith Colburn, who gave hints of shaking persistent injuries with a second-place GBC finish, was a distant twelfth against Yale and Princeton...
...tradition again by announcing plans for a small G.M. car (a foot longer than the West German Volkswagen) two years before it will be introduced. When G.M. opened its new 50-story Manhattan headquarters, Roche quipped that he had learned with "great relief" that the tower was only the twelfth tallest in town...
...Expensive People is a gross 18-year-old named Richard Everett with an IQ of 161 and a neurosis to match every one of his 250 pounds. In a memoir that sometimes reads like Compulsion as told by Holden Caulfield, Richard wanders through his traumatic childhood, concentrating upon his twelfth year when he blossomed out as a child murderer...
John Heyburn closed out the Harvard scoring in ninth place. Behind him, junior Erik Roth took tenth and sophomore Howie Foye took twelfth to sandwich M.I.T.'s John Yankaskas...