Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Orlando," originally published in 1928, chronicles the life of an Elizabethan courtier from the 16th century to modern times. It was made last year into a movie starring Tilda Swanson...
What made the loss worse was the brilliant recent play of the Quakers' main challenger, Princeton. The Tigers are undefeated through five games, including a 2-0 win over Cornell on Saturday. They have given up only four goals this season and are ranked 16th in the country, while Quakers are ranked 18th...
...Schumann brings intensely emotional playing, but also bad memories such as the beginning of the fourth movement, where Laredo and Stern both lose the string of their solo 16th-notes by the end of their runs. I wouldn't want the quartet to take a slower tempo, but I got the impression that they were flying blind--they didn't know for sure whether they could really pull...
Though in the company of host President Francois Mitterrand and other Allied leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II, Clinton made certain that the men who fought the battle were at his shoulder all day. None was more gallant than hulking Joe Dawson, the captain of G Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, who was the first officer to bring his shattered unit to the ridge above Omaha. Dawson used his native sense and energy to bring order and purpose out of chaos and confound the disciplined Nazi machine. D-day was a battle won by ones and twos and struggling gaggles...
...every building, every wall, every swell of land where he had landed. Jesse Franklin of Concord, New Hampshire, a military policeman sent to Omaha Beach to direct traffic, recalled that there was no traffic to direct. He hugged the sand on the orders of Colonel George Taylor, commanding the 16th regimental combat team of the First Division. Looking up, Franklin saw the colonel caked with sand and mud to his shoulders, bawling the now famous charge: "There are two kinds of men on this beach: the dead, and those about to die. So let's get the hell...