Word: twelvemonth
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...Chapter 1934 of the great visitors book which men call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
...society coherent, that hold it together. If they cannot be trusted, then the whole structure begins to wobble. If the air-traffic controllers do not care to recite Frost, they might consider William Murray, Britain's Solicitor General in the 18th century: "No country can subsist a twelvemonth where an oath is not thought binding, for the want of it must necessarily dissolve society." -By Lance Morrow
...rest of the week-long trial, polemics replaced punches, with the accused in effect becoming the accusers. All but one of the defendants admitted having dynamited 18 public and private buildings in Brittany over a twelvemonth period that ended last April. With the charges virtually undisputed, the prosecution did not bother to call a single witness. But the defendants used their days in court to speak out eloquently and emotionally on the economic exploitation and political neglect of their region...
...different fares to fly to the same city-depending upon their age and occupation, the starting point, the time of day or any one of a myriad other factors. Basic round-trip fares from New York to Rome, for example, range between $250 for special groups and $573 for twelvemonth economy. "When you put our present fares through a computer, they come out snarled like spaghetti," says Fabrizio Serena di Lapigio, the marketing director of Italy's Alitalia...
...routes, it is No. 1 in bank robberies. Because of its proximity to Mexico, it is the marijuana capital of the world. The L.A.P.D. seized 21 tons of grass last year, enough to orbit a good-size army. Because of its balmy climate, it has, notes the chief, a "twelvemonth crime culture...