Word: dozen
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...always so for Goldwater, who died in his beloved Arizona last week at 89. For the first dozen years of his career, from his arrival in Washington as the upset winner of a 1952 race for the Senate to his climactic run for the presidency in 1964, he was notorious for casting lonely and unpopular votes--against the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, for example, and against the Civil Rights Act a year later. For his offenses against progressive opinion, he was variously described as "dangerous," "psychotic," "Hitlerite," "fascistic" and a "rallying point for racists" whose election would lead...
...cheek and says, "What a difference it would have made to my childhood if I had seen someone who looks like you on television." The host is Oprah Winfrey, and she has been making that difference for millions of viewers, young and old, black and white, for nearly a dozen years...
...least not very clearly: films of her performances are scarce and mostly primitive. Much of her choreography has failed to wear well, especially by comparison with the work of George Balanchine, the unrivaled master of neoclassical ballet, and Taylor and Cunningham, her apostate alumni. No more than half a dozen of her dances, most notably Cave of the Heart and Appalachian Spring (1944), her radiant re-creation of a pioneer wedding, seem likely to stand the test of time. The rest are overwrought period pieces whose humorless, lapel-clutching intensity is less palatable now that their maker is no longer...
...bill to make men's and women's diplomas identical appeared on the council's docket, drawing over two dozen Harvard women to the council's Feb. 22 general meeting to defend their ancestral institution...
...houses about a dozen squash courts, a weight room in the basement and basketball courts on the top floor. If Hemenway's parquet floors and iron weights are transformed into a gathering ground for ambitious high school students, Law School students may lose access to their only athletic facility...