Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late March the group will be thinned to an even dozen space pioneers. Then will come the training program itself-"flights"' in a centrifuge simulating conditions during high-acceleration takeoff and quick-deceleration re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, flights in Mercury capsules carried by balloons. Finally, just before the big moment comes-perhaps three or four years hence-the first space-bound Mercury Astronaut will be named. The others will be expected to try subsequent flights...
...were right. I admit that I doubted your word and went out to buy a copy of the magazine before subscribing. But I'm convinced now. I have found your February 2 issue just chock full of facts, and I was able to use them at least a dozen times today. For instance, I was in a conversational circle today that was revolving around Bernstein (Estrella Bernstein, our cleaning woman) and I just usually dropped the fact that Cecil B. DeMille was dead. You remember--your latest issue devoted nearly three-quarters of a page to his career...
...some point during every U.S. high school debate on colonialism in the past dozen years, an earnest youth has pointed with pride to the Philippine Republic and its unflagging loyalty toward its onetime occupiers. Last week the U.S. learned with a jolt that this comfortable conviction needed reexamination. From Manila U.S. Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen headed back to Washington to report on the Philippine government's increasingly vocal antagonism to the U.S. Two days later, in an ostentatious bit of tit for tat, the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos P. Romulo was abruptly recalled to Manila...
...Events Coach Ed Flanagan, "I'd figure on the high jump in next year's Olympics, the jump and the hurdles in the next one, the decathlon in his prime. He won't even get to his prime until he's maybe 30 -a good dozen years...
...table-tennis referees, smiles tolerantly when he hears the cry familiar to his trade: "Whatsa matter, you got no eyes?" Medick is blind, from an accident in infancy. But Medick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles X-ray darkroom technician, has been policing table-tennis players for a dozen years. "I'm sure I've made a bad call or two in my career," he concedes. "But I can't recall when...