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Word: thirteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a spirit harder and harder to main tain as the years went by. At 30, he was old-looking and exhausted. Thinking that marriage would settle him down, as well as pay his debts, he wed a Mos cow beauty 13 years his junior. "My hun dred and thirteenth love," he called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges D'Anthes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cloak of Genius | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...state's voters to reflect their choice. By tradition, all the electoral votes should have gone automatically to Richard Nixon as winner of a plurality of the state's popular vote. Rather than ratify the Republican victory, however, Bailey, a loyal John Bircher, handed over one-thirteenth of the total votes to Wallace, because, as he put it: "Nixon has already clearly shown to us that we are going to have more of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Electoral College: Reminder for Reform | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Harvard's scoring was wrapped up by Royce Shaw in twelfth place and Tim McLoone in thirteenth. Both carded commendable times, under the twenty-six-minute barrier. Jon Enscoe was seventeenth...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Harriers, Hardin Set Heps Record | 11/9/1968 | See Source »

...Newly elected freshman captain Andy Meltzoff used his blistering kick to overtake two B.C. runners for seventh. Rick Barton was only seven seconds behind, but began his sprint too late and had to settle for eleventh. Phil Liechtenstein and Jake Seniuk rounded out the Harvard scoring with thirteenth and fourteenth places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '72 Runners Win Greater Bostons | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

RECREATION: Plug into your Thirteenth Floor Elevator earphones, sit crosslegged on the floor, take a puff enjoy the stuff, write a rhyme to pass the time, make a movie or something groovie...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

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