Word: 13th
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...Unlucky 13th. After that came the unlucky 13th, a par-five, 475-yd. hole. Player's tee shot sliced into heavy woods at the right of the fairway. Impatiently, Player tried to bend a No. 2 iron shot around the trees, smothered his ball, sent it scuttling into a creek. He dropped out, took a one-stroke penalty, missed a 4-ft. putt, and scored an appalling double-bogey seven that left him tied with Palmer Shaken, Player fluffed a simple, 3-ft. puti on the 15th, dropped a stroke behind Staggering through a sand trap on the 18th...
...Xang. A branch of the Thai peoples, the Lao were driven out of southern China by Kublai Khan in the 13th century and fled south to the valleys of the Mekong behind a legendary king, Khun Borom, who rode "a white elephant with beautiful black lips and eyelids." There was, a century later, a brief foray at empire. King Fah Ngum, born with a set of 33 pointed teeth, grabbed all of present-day Laos and part of Thailand by elephant charge and labeled it all Lan Xang Horn Khao, "Land of the Million Elephants and the W'hite...
...gives an astonishing impression of the multitudinous interests of a man who tried to take all knowledge for his province, and sometimes all provinces (especially Pennsylvania) for his knowledge. The volume covers the 5½ years between 1745 and mid-17 50, and proceeds by remorseless chronology from the 13th edition of Poor Richard's Almanack (next to the Bible, the bestseller of the day) until a year or so before Franklin got to fly that famous kite in the thunderstorm. Those who like to smile with superior historical hindsight can do so on page 374 with the realization...
...such sour note flawed the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. Lancers of the 61st Cavalry pranced by on spirited horses; the 13th Grenadiers Camel Corps galumphed past, and troops of elephants ponderously raised their trunks in salute. More meaningful to many Indians was the sight of a British Queen laying a wreath of 500 white roses at the shrine of Mohandas Gandhi...
...correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic façade, where no memher has won any academic distinction since the 13th century...