Word: dozen
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...certain distance the members put between one another that is palpable. The Kroks spend their entire summer together every year, crisscrossing the globe and by the end of tour, tensions run high. "I was ready to kill everyone in the group," one member explains. The Kroks spend a dozen hours or so together during the average school week and then band together as, perhaps, the only (mostly) fair-skinned, English speaking people in some of the exotic places they visit. To avoid conflict, they realize certain compromises must be made. The first is that they avoid getting too close...
...catalog of trauma turned out to be a long one. Below the right knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could...
Gunther only let two balls hit the net in the Harvard Invitational. She made a dozen saves, denying the Quakers five times and added seven against Penn...
...disheartened, however, to find almost a dozen different Christian groups. Why is diversity in the Christian community such a bad thing, you may ask? Certainly it is good that the Christian faith has grown so strong at Harvard that there are now many groups to cater to the individual needs of all different believers...
With respect to Christian unity, when I first arrived on campus, I visited a half-dozen of the many Christian groups. I asked each group's leader why it had formed a new institution, as opposed to being part of a larger community of fellow believers. All of the leaders said they shared the same fundamental beliefs of the Christian faith: First, that all people have sinned and are therefore separated from the perfection of God. Second, that we cannot ourselves make atonement for our faults. Third, Jesus Christ lived on this earth as both man and God and sacrificed...